Just in Time for Christmas by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2022-07-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The Hobby Lobby store buzzed with excitement. Anything that had to do with Halloween was seventy-five percent off, and Thanksgiving items were displayed on two long aisles. But Christmas was what took Liz’s eye. Several aisles displayed thousands of bright, sparkly ornaments that hung from the floor to above Raylen’s head. Pretty paper, shiny ribbons, glittery garland, and beautiful tree toppers were on another aisle, and Liz could have all she wanted of everything that year. In years past, Marva Jo had set up a two-foot tree on the kitchen table and scattered the presents around it. They’d always put lights on the trees outside Poppa’s trailer, and sometimes he even had a small tree, but nothing that went from floor to ceiling. She’d always wanted to buy lots of pretty decorations and that night she had the basket full before she and Raylen even turned into the Christmas tree aisle.

“From the look in those pretty eyes, maybe we should’ve brought a horse trailer to get all your purchases back to Ringgold,” Raylen said.

She pointed at the biggest tree on display. “Look at that big one. Will it fit in the truck?”

He hugged her tightly to his side. “They come dismantled and in a box, so the answer is yes, however you might want to reconsider. It says right here this tree is ten feet tall. It’s eight feet from your floor to your ceiling. We’ll have to cut at least two or three feet out of the top of that one,” he said.

She cocked her head to one side. “You are saying I should buy a six-foot tree in order to get the topper on it?”

He brushed a sweet kiss across her lips. “That’s right, but look at all the different six-footers. There’s the skinny one that doesn’t take up much room, and there’s a fat one that’ll cover a quarter of your living room.” He pointed as he spoke.

Liz pushed her cart toward the six-footers, folded her arms, and studied each one. “I want the fat one. I don’t care how much room it takes up. It looks like one we’d really cut down out in the woods. And I want some of that pine spray stuff to go on it so it will smell real. And…” She hesitated.

“And what?” Raylen asked.

“Can we cut a real tree down tomorrow and put it up in the barn? That’s where we’ll have our carnie dinner on Wednesday night. And I’d like to have a tree in the corner and presents for everyone who is there, and we could put up a cedar in the barn because it wouldn’t have to last but a few days, and if anyone is allergic we could open the big doors and…”

Raylen drew her close to his side. “We’ll go cut down a tree tomorrow and decorate one in the barn and one in the house.”

She grabbed his cheeks with her hands and rolled up on her toes. The kiss was supposed to be quick, and no one was supposed to see it, but it lingered and grew more passionate by the second.

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