Holiday Hat Trick by Gayle Catherine

Author:Gayle, Catherine [Gayle, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Night Shift Publishing
Published: 2014-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

I WANTED TO kiss Mitch. The unbidden thought struck me like a sledgehammer to the head as I sat in a quiet corner with my camera and assortment of lenses, snapping photos and trying to sort out my emotions-gone-wild.

I didn’t want to want to kiss him, but ever since he’d rolled me on top of him in the snow there had been little else going on in my mind. I kept remembering the feel of his lips on mine, the sensation of being wrapped up in his arms—warm and safe and loved—and it was all I could do to keep myself at a safe distance. If I let down my guard for even a second, I knew I would be stretching up on my tiptoes and pulling his head down to mine, and then it would be all over. The entirety of the last year—all the heartache and loneliness and frustration—would have been all for nothing.

So as I watched him playing with Marley and the other kids on the floor, I forced a different memory into my mind—the last night we’d spent together over the summer. We’d both known that would be the last time, that we would never make love again. The divorce had been almost final. We had been separated since January, when he’d been traded to St. Louis and I had refused to uproot my life yet again. It had been hard enough when it had just been me and Mitch. Now Marley was in the picture, though, and I just couldn’t do it. I couldn’t keep dropping everything.

But that night over the summer, he had shown up at my door, his eyes had been bloodshot, and he’d said, “Please.” Just one word—a single syllable that had cracked his voice at the same time as it broke my heart. To this day, I still didn’t know what he’d been begging me for. But his voice had been filled with so much love and anguish and fear and tenderness that I’d done the only thing I could think to do. I’d pulled him inside and taken him to my bed, and I’d loved him with my body because I couldn’t allow myself to do so with my words.

Two days later, my lawyer had presented me with the final divorce papers. I’d signed them, unable to stop sobbing. The tears had smudged the ink of my signature. I’d always wondered since then what had gone through Mitch’s mind when he saw the evidence of my own pain. Did he know that it hurt me as much as it hurt him? He must have. We’d been so close for so long that we always knew what was going on beneath the surface of the other without a word being spoken.

Right now, I forced myself to think back to that moment as a reminder that it had been the last time we would be together. I couldn’t lose myself in him again, despite it being so terrifyingly easy to do.

A little while ago, everyone at Mom and Dad’s house had come together and eaten a big meal.

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