Fighting 'round the Christmas Tree (Fighting #4.5) by Nikki Ash

Author:Nikki Ash [Ash, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Bentley

We get to the tree farm and I take Ryan’s hand in mine while the girls go in search of a tree. Kayla decided to stay back and spend some time with her mom.

“Okay, little man. You ready to pick out a Christmas tree?” Ryan just looks at me. I wonder if he knows what Christmas is. I make a mental note to see if the resort has a Santa Claus we can go see. We usually go to the mall every year but with the girls getting older, they find it to be silly. I need to remember all these things now that we have another little one in the house.

After about thirty minutes of everyone pointing at several trees, we have decided on the two trees we are going to cut down.

“Dad! Can you help us? Cooper said we have to cut down the tree for our house!” Faith calls to me and Cooper laughs.

“All right.” I bend down to speak to Ryan. “I’m going to help them cut the tree down. I want you to stay right here, okay?”

“I’ll keep an eye on him. Is this the famous Ryan I have heard about?” Marco smiles down at Ryan.

“It is. Ryan, this is Marco, he is Chloe’s brother.”

“Nice to meet you little guy.” Marco lifts his hand to give Ryan a high five but Ryan only stares. Marco puts his hand down, then kneels in front of Ryan to talk to him.

“I’m going to help them. I’ll be right back.”

I jog over to the girls who are holding the bow saw in their hands trying to cut the tree down. They look absolutely adorable but they aren’t even making a dent in the trunk.

“Coop, are you picking on my little girls?” I joke. The girls hand over the saw, and after putting on the gloves the tree farm loaned everyone, I start sawing the tree trunk. Thankfully, we picked smaller trees so within a few minutes I am half way through. Cooper is sawing the other tree and he’s almost done. The tree is already tipping to the side.

“Everyone move,” he yells and the tree tips all the way over hitting the ground, snow flying up into the air. I finish sawing our tree and it hits the ground shortly after his.

“All right! Let’s load them up onto the tractor trailer so they can bring them up.”

The kids all grab parts of the trees and start dragging. The adults watch for a second, all of us silently laughing at the fact that the kids aren’t dragging the trees anywhere.

“Some help would be nice,” Faith grumbles.

After the trees are loaded, I look around for Ryan. I don’t see him and I start to freak out. Nothing is scarier than losing a child, but add a mute child to the scenario and it’s downright terrifying.

“Have you seen Ryan?” I start asking. Everyone shakes their heads and starts looking around them.

“He was just here.” Now I’m panicking.

“Ryan!” I yell, hoping he will answer.

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