Christmas in Magnolia Glen: A Sweet Christmas Romance by Catelyn Meadows

Author:Catelyn Meadows [Meadows, Catelyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

If a kiss was the key, I was absolutely ready to turn it. I lifted my chin, holding my breath and a dash of hope all at once. This was the moment where dreams peaked, where wind hushed, and leaves stopped rustling, and everything became clearer than a still pond reflecting the way ahead. This was the scenic view personified. Rather than joining me, he changed course. Turned his head with a noticeable exhale, stiffening his shoulders and breaking the intensity that had been building between us.

“What do you say we finish this?” he asked.

“Finish what?” I fought down my disappointment and attempted to come to the same wavelength he was on.

Angel stood, and the physical distance wasn’t the only kind of separation I experienced from him. I could sense him moving himself emotionally from me as well, as though something had just taken place between us that I couldn’t quite put my finger on.

“Tonight,” he said. “I was assigned to take you to a few specific points in time, and we have a few left to go.”

I was still hung up on the words finish this. I knew better than to let my regard for him go to places it shouldn’t, but my interest was as stubborn as I was. To pursue anything now would only give me the worst of all romantic hangovers once the morning came.

Chances were, he was just being flirty when he really felt nothing for me, like the mask I’d seen him slip on over his sadness when we’d been in the back-alley basketball court. Was that why he hadn’t kissed me?

He wanted to finish his task so he could move on; that was all this was. So we both could move on.

What was wrong with me? Maybe I was seeing things between us that weren’t actually there because I was desperate. Because I hadn’t had a relationship in so long. I liked him. He was a great listener, thoughtful and helpful. He was someone I could see myself wanting to spend more time with, someone I could share my confidences with. Someone who would make me smile and whom I wanted to make smile in return.

I was more than attracted to him, dang it. I was growing attached, and attachments were dangerous. He’d been right to pull away, to keep distance between us. To get the rest of this night over with as soon as possible. My mind accepted as much. Why was my heart so slow to keep up?

“More stops?” I said, hoping he couldn’t hear the disappointment in my tone. Or if he did, that he would mistake it for my disinterest in more travels to view my life. He wasn’t taking me anywhere else in the present, was he? I’d have to decline. My heart felt as though it’d been wrung out. I’d meant it when I’d said I couldn’t handle anything else.

“We’re headed on to Christmas Future.”

“Oh, boy,” I said.

“Don’t get too excited.”

“Did that sound excited?” I stood and pressed my palms against my stomach.

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