Love for the Single Mom (Frosty Pines Christmas) by Ruby Hill

Author:Ruby Hill [Hill, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-30T22:00:00+00:00

Scrunching up his nose, Maverick gestured to the set piece with his paintbrush. “What do you think?” A sidelong glance toward Kaitlin told him she was barely turning her head to look in his direction.

“Yeah, it looks fine.”

His mouth twisted. This was now the third time they’d gotten together to paint the sets, and with a little less than four weeks to go until the Christmas show, Maverick knew he needed to up his game and get more of the sets painted if they were going to be ready on time. While Kaitlin had seemed happy to work alongside him, she definitely hadn’t been as chatty as she had been before. Ever since that night he’d come to help her and Sarah make Christmas cookies, things had changed between them—although that was probably mostly due to him and the way he’d walked out so quickly. Sarah had come by the fire station the day afterward with the fire truck Christmas cookie she’d made, complete with fairy lights in the form of sugar crystals stuck all over it, and he’d been both happy and guilty at the same time. Being close with Kaitlin, seeing the easy way they got on together, and finding his heart going in somersaults whenever she got close to him, had been a little too much to take in, especially since he’d had a date with Sophie later that same evening.

Confusion ruled his heart and his mind. He was torn between Sophie and what he was beginning to feel for Kaitlin. The problem was, he had no idea whether or not Kaitlin felt anything back for him in return, and giving up what he had with Sophie for the sake of what he might have with Kaitlin wasn’t what he was ready to do.

But the more time he was spending with Kaitlin, the more difficult it seemed to go back out on yet another date with Sophie.

“It’s getting late.” Stretching, he smiled down at Kaitlin as she knelt on the floor, leaning forward to paint around one of the drawn windows on the set piece. “Are you going to stay? We could always come back tomorrow, even for a little while.”

“I can’t.” Her eyes darted to his and then dropped away again. “I’m busy.”

“Oh.” His mouth puckered.

“The Frosty Pines Christmas Festival is in three days, so I’m going to be baking like crazy.” The slight edge to her tone had him frowning, only for a swell of embarrassment to roar over the top of him. She’d already told him about the festival and how much she’d have to do in preparation for it. His heart suddenly dropped to the floor.

“Wait, I hope you’re not doing this when you’ve got a ton of stuff still to do for the festival.” When she glanced up at him again, Maverick closed his eyes, blowing out a long breath in an attempt to chase some of his own frustration away. “When I said it would be great to do this together, you didn’t have to say yes to me every time I asked you.

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