Christmas Comes to Dickens by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books From a Romantics Heart
Published: 2020-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

FEE TALKED TO THE KITTENS as she fed them before work each morning. She’d only slept a few hours after the idyllic day on the coast, and not that many the night before, but she still felt...revived. “We saw cardinals again, just like we did when we were kids.” She grinned at Mistletoe’s serious expression. “You’ll eventually feel a lot different about bright red birds than I do, but you’re not going to be able to act on those feelings. We’ll talk about it when the time comes.” She picked him up, snuggling him. “Feelings are important, but you can’t let them run your life.”

She believed that, but she’d had a wonderful couple of days acting on feelings. She’d thought, when she woke with Jed beside her, that she felt just as she had when they were kids. But she’d been wrong.

It was more.

She walked to work, loving the crisp coldness of the day. She was anxious to see how the store had done during the open hours after the tree-lighting. Although she’d remained cautiously optimistic about the business all the time she’d been open, she knew holidays were important times for revenue. If December didn’t go well, chances were good she wouldn’t make it through the following year.

“What will you do if it doesn’t work?” Her mother, who never practiced caution in her own life, hadn’t wanted her to come back east, to act on the quilt shop dream that kept her going through the years of working in factories and waiting on tables—sometimes both in the same days.

But her mother had been there in Fee’s Michigan kitchen when Ailey had looked out the window over the table and said, “Look, Maimeó, a cardinal. Mom says they’re lucky and they stand for loyalty and something else. What is it, Mom?”

“Love,” Kate had said softly, her eyes shining over, and she’d pulled Fee into a hug. “Go and give it all you’ve got, lass.”

She hoped “all you’ve got” was enough. It was hard, though, to maintain her Monday-morning-worried status after spending the past few days with Jed. Ailey was in Ireland, safe and loved with Kate and Aunt Siobhan, and Fee was in lo...

No. No, she wasn’t. She was having a good time with an old friend, was all. He’d be gone soon and she’d still be here. She needed to remember that and concentrate on making a success of Silver Threads & Golden Needles.

Joanna was already in the store when Fee got there, practically bouncing in her excitement. “You won’t believe it,” she said. “Not only did we sell a bunch of fabric, two women were here from the state guild and want us to be part of the annual state quilt show. Like a big part of it. They were here on the shop hop in the spring and again for the big summer sale and they were so impressed, Fee. One lady ate some gingerbread and said if you opened another shop, you need to call it

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