One Enchanted Eve: A Novella (Enchanted Christmas Collection Book 2) by Tagg Melissa

Author:Tagg, Melissa [Tagg, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Larkspur Press
Published: 2016-11-22T05:00:00+00:00

“You weren’t lying. It really did snow.”

Colin let out a laugh at Rylan’s gasped words. “No, I wasn’t lying. Generally if I’m going to tell a lie, I try to pick a juicier topic than the weather.”

Rylan pulled her nose away from the passenger door window she’d had it smashed up against almost the whole way out of town to the railroad depot they approached now. Her face was the perfect picture of a disapproving matron. “You shouldn’t ever lie, Colin. It’s very wrong.” She turned back to the window.

“You have seen snow before, right? Like, last week back in Denver. And halfway through Nebraska.”

“But I’ve never seen it in Iowa. It’s different here.”

It was exactly the same. White and fluffy. But he wasn’t complaining. He liked this Rylan—all softness and wonder. None of the prickles and sting he’d grown so accustomed to back in Denver.

And the way she’d talked to Leigh back at the restaurant, the honesty and understanding in her voice—he couldn’t for the life of him figure out why, but it’d nearly undone him right there in the kitchen doorway. He’d actually had to blink away sudden tears.

Because of his sister’s admission of how much she was struggling? Because of what he’d learned of Rylan’s own heartbreak?

Or maybe it was the simple and entirely unexpected joy of seeing two people he cared about—apparently at some point in the past week, Rylan had come to fit that description—find exactly what they needed in one conversation. Leigh, a listening ear. Rylan, the chance to step outside her own hurt long enough to share someone else’s.

He’d felt uplifted and unraveled, all at once. Yearning and hope stirred together inside him.

Along with something else he didn’t dare name, no matter how endearing Rylan had looked with her hair in a knot and her sleeves pushed up to her elbows. No matter how his own awareness had peaked in those moments standing so close to her by the dishwasher.

A few minutes in the cold, a good dousing of snow, would do him good.

“I see the depot!” Rylan lifted one hand to the window. He’d dug the mittens she wore out of the coat closet back at Drew’s earlier in the week. “You were right. Everyone in town must be here.”

He steered his car into the parking lot of the Maple Valley Scenic Railroad. “That’s twice in one night you’ve acknowledged I was right. The snow, the turnout at Depot Hill.” The oblong depot, which also served as a museum, was lit up on all sides, a yellow glow in every window and a string of bulbs rimming the roof’s overhang. And just like he’d predicted, hordes of kids were already making tracks in the fluffy blanket of snow that covered the hill. Moonlight coasted through the clouds.

Rylan was out of the car before he’d even cut the engine. By the time he rounded the front, snow already half-covered the knit hat she wore over her now-loose hair. He had to blink to keep snowflakes from sticking in his eyelashes.

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