Enchanted Christmas: A Limited Edition Collection of Five Holiday Novellas by Pope Christine

Author:Pope, Christine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Published: 2023-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Miranda

Rafe was sitting at the kitchen table when I returned from Albuquerque. Cat and I had had a great time picking out decorations for the reception hall, and had placed a much larger order with the party rental company than I’d first imagined. Then again, this was a big deal, a way to make our legitimate to all the Castillos. I needed to ensure that everything went as smoothly as possible, and that meant throwing a wedding reception that didn’t look like some hastily slapped-together affair.

Because I hadn’t really bought anything, had only placed an order for lights and decorations, I didn’t walk into the house with anything except my purse slung over my shoulder. Cat had dropped me off and sped away after apologizing for not coming in. While we were at the party rental place, she’d gotten a text from one of the contractors she’d been negotiating with. He’d had a cancellation and was available to take a look at the Pojoaque property, and so she didn’t have any time to spare, but needed to get back on the road as soon as possible.

I didn’t mind that she needed to get going. While I didn’t want to bore Rafe too much with elaborate descriptions of what I had planned for the reception, I figured it couldn’t hurt to give him just a little sneak peek. However, judging by the abstracted frown he wore as I approached the kitchen table, I had a feeling he wouldn’t be too interested in descriptions of white and silver topiaries or bare birch branches with twinkle LEDs embedded in them.

“What’s the matter?” I asked, slipping my purse over the back of a chair before I pulled it out and sat down. “You look like a storm cloud.”

“Sorry,” Rafe replied, and reached up to push back the too-long piece of hair that always wanted to fall into the middle of his forehead. “I just had to run over to my cousin Sophia’s house. Tony’s mother,” he added, since apparently he could tell from my expression that I didn’t have the faintest idea who Sophia was.

“Oh,” I said. “He’s not pulling out of the wedding, is he? I mean, I suppose we could find someone else to be best man, but — ”

“Nothing like that,” Rafe broke in. “Basically, she’s the one who got stuck babysitting the spell books that were taken from the house in La Cienega. She wanted to talk to me about what we should do with them.”

Right. Handling the disposal of those grimoires had been one of many items on a long to-do list, a task that I’d mentally filed in the “after the wedding” category and promptly forgot about. “Shouldn’t we send them back to the de la Paz clan?”

“That was my first suggestion, but Sophia had several reservations, all of which were valid enough. It’s probably better if we sit on them for now.”

I could feel a frown of my own pulling at my brows. Hanging on to

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