The Magic of Mistletoe by Carolyn Hector

Author:Carolyn Hector
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

With the Thanksgiving holiday behind them, the Christmas spirit began to spread to everyone in town. Thanks to Duke’s help, Macy completed one of her most successful weekends yet. He’d turned out to be more reliable than expected. What she did not expect was her overflow of emotion for him. This celebrity crush was manifesting into something else, and Macy had no idea what to do with it. Since laying eyes on him in person, he’d had such a profound effect on every aspect of her life, and it was hard accepting he would be gone after the New Year.

Every day after he did the morning show, Duke would show up at Winter Paradise, just as promised. He worked diligently, helping her get all her homes done ahead of schedule. At the office, he bonded with Andy and Spencer while loading and unloading the shed. For Serena, he would call up his single friends and talk her up. If she ever made it to New York City or DC, she was going to have a busy time.

And then there were the evenings when Duke would insist on driving her home, and of course Gia and MJ would beg him to stay for dinner. When he talked about going out and finding a Christmas tree to chop down, the kids invited themselves to tag along, which led to an impromptu road trip after school. Of course, upon returning home, they had to show him the proper way to decorate a tree. Macy and the children always decorated their trees alone. But having Duke in the house with them seemed natural.

In just a short amount of time, Duke had become an intricate part of her life. And now Macy had plenty of time to work on his home. The Wainwrights ended up deciding not to go with Macy’s company, which was fine with her. The positive side of not working with the Wainwrights meant it now gave her more time to work on Duke’s place. After receiving written permission from the owners of the house Duke rented, Macy set forth a plan to work on the decorations.

Taking her eyes off her work for a second, Macy briefly looked up and spied Duke straddling the other end of the black shingles on the roof with the hammer in one hand, a nail in the other and an extra nail in his mouth. His triceps glistened in the sunlight. Sweat trickled from his brow, and he’d never looked sexier. The man concentrated on his task at hand, and maybe more so because they were finally able to work on his house, albeit in the evening. Of course he would have to have a two-story colonial-style home. It was pretty; Macy had seen the prestigious neighborhood when she searched for a home for her family. No matter how successful her business was, this neighborhood was still nowhere near her price range.

They’d spent the earlier part of their afternoon wrapping lights around the four pillars on his front porch.

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