The Lost Knight by Carrie Lynn Thomas

Author:Carrie Lynn Thomas [Thomas, Carrie Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 48198610
Publisher: CLT Books
Published: 2019-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

Sage

On my first Christmas with my grandparents, they woke me up early. I had stumbled down the hallway to find my grandma flipping pancakes at the stove and my grandpa in his chair with a huge pile of presents under the tree next to him. “Merry Christmas,” they said with smiles brighter than the lights on the tree. Every one of those presents was for me. They spoiled me that Christmas with new clothes and electronics and books and board games. The presents didn’t stop. But it was the handful of gifts I opened last that meant the most. There were half a dozen quilts my grandma had made me over the years. One covered in pink and gray elephants created just after I was born. A princess quilt from when I was about four. Two quilts with my name, one fit for a ten-year-old and the other for a teenager. But it was the last quilt that brought tears to my eyes. When I pulled it from the paper, I gasped at the blocks of Harry Potter fabric. “It’s to celebrate your new beginning,” she said. Part of my starting over involved finishing the Harry Potter series, the books I had been reading with my dad when he died. And I had. Six weeks after leaving Star Harbor, I had closed book seven and cried. Really heart-wrenching-gasping-for-breath cried. My grandma found me. “They’re cleansing tears,” I told her. “Finally finishing the series was like having his arms wrapped around me.”

“I knew you needed a quilt that day I discovered you crying,” she said as I held it up. “I left your room and went straight to my quilt room.” I sobbed at her words. Not just for the past Christmases I had lost, but all the ones still to lose. Adam and I never shared a Christmas. Never decorated a tree or kissed under the mistletoe or held hands at a midnight service with the snow falling around us. He was in California and I was in Star Harbor and our worlds never collided outside of summer. Oh, he’d send me texts and call me and flood my e-mail inbox. He would send presents and do silly things like stay up late with me, pretending to watch for Santa. But we were never together. Never close enough to share the magic of Christmas time. The lights and the music, being wrapped up in warm sweaters and each other.

But this year, it all could be different. Christmas. That’s what I’m thinking when Zane pulls into the parking lot, a sprawling glittering building with the words Bluelight Casino sprawled across the top. They blink on and off, illuminating a lot full of cars that have seen better days. I’m guessing it’s not the luckiest casino in town. The clock on the dashboard reads 10:03. Maybe it’s all these lights that have me thinking Christmas.

“A casino? Vin lives at a casino?”

“Lives—more like owns. Several of them. But this is usually the one he hangs at.

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