His Little Christmas Miracle by Emily Forbes

Author:Emily Forbes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-12-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

‘LUCAS, WE HAVE a situation.’

Lucas looked up from his computer screen. His PA was standing in his doorway, smiling. She didn’t look too perturbed by the ‘situation’.

‘What is it?’

‘I think you’d better come and see,’ Sofia replied.

Lucas followed her out of his office. He glanced around as he crossed the lobby. Everything looked to be in order. Sofia continued across the floor and exited the lodge out onto the plaza. It was late in the afternoon, the ski runs had closed and streams of people were coming and going through the village. Sofia gestured with an open palm towards the bay where the lodge sleigh was parked. Three young girls, one with her platinum blonde hair tied in two short pigtails, stood beside it.

Lily. Even if he hadn’t seen her at the tube park last weekend he would have recognised her. She was just a down-sized version of her mother.

Lucas frowned. What possible reason could Lily have for being here? It had been almost a week since he’d seen Jess and he’d never met her daughter.

Since the kiss, he’d been snowed under with work, the hotel was at full capacity and he’d had some staffing and maintenance issues that had taken up a lot of his time, and although he had invited Jess and Lily to dinner during the week Jess had graciously refused. He wasn’t sure if she was avoiding him or not but he’d been too busy to push the invitation. Nevertheless, his curiosity was now piqued.

‘What do they want?’ he asked Sofia.

‘A sleigh ride.’

‘I’ve got this,’ he told her.

He’d been kicking himself since last weekend when he’d discovered that Jess had a child. He couldn’t believe he’d been such an idiot. He should have come back to Moose River sooner. He’d thought he’d had time, he’d thought he could afford to wait until he’d achieved his goals. They were both young and he hadn’t considered for one moment that Jess would have moved on. Not to this extent.

But a child wasn’t a deal-breaker. Not in any way. If Jess had been married, that would be a different ball game but he could work with her being a mother. If she’d let him. And he was intrigued to find out more about Lily. This might be the perfect opportunity.

He approached the girls. One looked to be Lily’s age, maybe a year older, and the other he guessed to be twelve or thirteen.

‘Lily?’ he asked. ‘I’m Lucas. This is my hotel. Is there something I can do for you?’

Lily looked up at him and he was struck again by the resemblance to Jess. She was frowning and she got the same little crease between her eyebrows that her mother got when she was unsure of something. ‘How did you know my name?’ she asked.

Lucas smiled to himself. He’d been imagining that Jess had mentioned him to Lily. He’d been flattered and encouraged to think she might have but obviously that wasn’t the case.

‘I know your mum. You look just like her.

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