Snowed In by Tricia Wentworth

Author:Tricia Wentworth [Wentworth, Tricia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

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Back inside, Jordyn was quiet. Too quiet. He knew Aunt Rose could be a lot. As could Blakely. Blakely was a pistol. And Jordyn could be too, but nothing about Blakely was relaxed or at ease. Jordyn could go with the flow, something she’d probably had to learn to do her entire life because of her crappy mom. That was not Blakely at all. Blakely didn’t go with the flow; she made her own flow. Even if there was a perfectly fine flow that was much easier to follow. That was just his sister.

Jordyn was curled up on the couch with her Kindle on her lap while Beckett watched some college football, but he noticed she wasn’t turning the pages. Which meant she had to be in her head big time.

He turned down the volume on the game and turned to face her, hand on her shoulder, massaging it. “What’s wrong, Jordyn?”

She looked guilty, unable to deny there wasn’t anything wrong. “I just . . .” She paused, then shrugged dejectedly. “I feel lonely. You have Aunt Rose and Blakely, and they are super incredible women . . . . ”

“As are you,” he insisted in her hesitation.

She smiled and looked him in the eyes. “I just had a thought right after we talked to Blakely that once I finally do have to go back to Houston, you’ll have Blakely. She will be here over Christmas break. She will help you not miss me. And I . . . well, I don’t even have a cat. So it’s going to take some . . . getting used to?” She sighed in defeat. “No. I won’t sugarcoat it . . . . It’s going to suck.”

He loved her honesty, but her words were like a punch to the gut. She thought he wouldn’t miss her? The hell?

“If anything, Blakely being home for Christmas will only make me miss you more. But why do I have to miss you? Why don’t you come back for Christmas? I’ll even buy you a plane ticket so you don’t have to drive.” He was kind of thinking out loud, but after he said it, he thought it might be the best damn idea he’d ever had.

“What?!”

“You said you spend New Year’s with Sam, so I assume you don’t have Christmas plans,” he explained. “It’s just Blakely and me. We have lunch at Rose’s café on Christmas Eve, go to church, and then we do our own thing here. Always have. Why don’t you come back and spend Christmas with us?”

Her mouth opened. And shut. And opened. And shut.

“What?” he asked, grinning. He loved it when he did something to impress her, and it flustered her.

“I just . . . it’s . . . you want to date me, date me, even after I have to leave?” she asked point-blank.

“When have I ever led you to believe otherwise?” he asked confused. Good Lord, he did not know how to do this dating thing. He didn’t date. Maybe that was the problem.

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