Santa's on His Way by Lisa Jackson

Author:Lisa Jackson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

A COWBOY WEDDING FOR CHRISTMAS

NICOLE HELM

CHAPTER 1

Lindsay Tyler remembered exactly what she’d said to her oldest brother when he’d asked if she’d feel weird about him getting married at her ex-boyfriend’s family’s Christmas tree farm.

Why would I care about that?

No matter that Cal still lived in her head as the paragon of boyfriend-ness that no other man she’d dated had come close to. It had been years since she’d decided she wanted more than Gracely, Colorado, and Cal Barton.

Why would I care about that?

As she turned onto the lane that would lead to the Barton Ranch and Christmas Tree Farm, she realized why she would care. Too many memories, sweet and increasingly nostalgic with time. There had been years of her life when she’d been so sure she’d marry Cal, move into the house at the end of this lane, and that would be it.

But he hadn’t wanted her more, and she hadn’t been willing to sacrifice seeing a different world for him.

A different world that hadn’t fit her like the glove she’d expected it to. A different world that never quite lived up to home. Oh, she was glad she’d done it. Six years of independence and learning to be Lindsay Tyler outside of her wonderful but overbearing family. She’d needed that.

But coming home . . . Well, it was the right step now. Adult, twenty-four-year-old Lindsay needed home. And for good.

She still couldn’t believe herself. Instead of traveling the world or being a famous artist, she was going to student teach and then ideally get a job in the fall where she’d once been an elementary school student.

It was such a joke after all her grand proclamations when she’d left the Tyler Ranch. An embarrassing one. So embarrassing she still hadn’t told her family she wasn’t just coming home for Christmas vacation. She was home for good.

The thought of telling them made her a little sick, so she was more than happy to fall into wedding plans for her oldest brother and his soon-to-be wife. Even if it meant driving up to the Barton house.

The arching sign over the entryway to the Barton Ranch and Christmas Tree Farm read just that in block red and green letters and had for something like a century. She’d always liked that, that Cal had roots just like hers. Old and settled into the land, but unlike her family’s straightforward cattle ranch, Cal had this amazing, festive, and unique history.

Cal was none of those things, which had always pleased her. Her gruff, taciturn cowboy whose smile was mostly just for her because he didn’t smile for much else.

She needed to get over the nostalgia train and focus on what was ahead of her. Her brother’s wedding. Christmas with her family. And, at some point, swallowing her pride and telling them she was back for good.

Merry Crappy Christmas.

She pulled up behind a line of her family’s trucks. The Barton house was decked out with an impressive light display. Before Cal’s mother had abandoned the family, Cal’s dad always spent days and days getting it just right.

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