The Rock Star's Christmas Reunion: contemporary holiday romance (A Charisma series novel, The Connollys Book 1) by Heather Hiestand

Author:Heather Hiestand [Hiestand, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: A Charisma Series Novel, The Connollys, Book One
Publisher: Coffee on Sundays Press
Published: 2016-10-13T18:30:00+00:00

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The second to the last Friday before Christmas. Battlefield should have been hopping with parties. People wouldn’t be traveling in from out-of-town quite yet, but the locals should be busy. Holiday bazaars would be popping up all around the county for last minute shoppers.

Bax, though a native, felt like an outsider as he pushed his cart around the smaller of the two grocery stores. He received a couple of admiring glances from young mothers as they pushed their oversized carts with car seats through the store, but he was no longer sure if they admired him because he was recognizably famous or because he wasn’t wearing a wedding ring. Either way, no one spoke to him. He hadn’t moved back here to leave the limelight. In fact, he’d thought he’d be more noticeable here, hometown boy or not. He guessed the opposite was true. Bax Connolly with his three number one hits and two songwriting Grammys was just another anonymous local.

Lost in thought, he was jarred back to reality when his cart collided with another. His carton of eggs slid across the wires, but didn’t bump the side hard enough to break any of them.

“Sorry about that,” said a fifty-something woman with gray-streaked black hair.

As his eyes went to her face, her own gaze narrowed. “Bax? Is it really you?”

“Yes, ma’am,” he said with the countrified recognition-by-the-fans grin he’d picked up from Will Dealy. “And you are?”

Her tone oozed disapproval. “Nancy Wannassay.”

“Oh, I’m sorry. How are you, Mrs. Wannassay?” What an ass he was, not recognizing Yakima’s mother and his father’s next door neighbor.

“Very well, thank you.”

“Just picking up a few things?” Bax saw a party tray in her cart, along with a couple of bottles of wine, some good cheese, and high end crackers. “I guess you aren’t a vegetarian.” He pointed at the meats on the tray.

“No. Yakima picked that up from one of her teachers in high school.”

“I thought I remembered hot dogs at Jay’s birthday parties back in the day.”

“Yes.” Mrs. Wannassay seemed to be forcing herself to be social. “All moved in now?”

“I had a decorator handle the basics. Now I’m trying to personalize, and of course, decorate for the holidays. Are you coming to my party tomorrow? I left an invitation tucked into your door.”

“My husband and I are promised to an event in Portland. Thank you for the invitation, though. I’m sure Yakima has something delicious prepared for you.”

“Yes, she did a great job with my little family dinner. You must be proud of her.” Now he was talking like a suburban mom. Mrs. Wannassay, he now remembered, had always made him nervous. She was more forbidding, like Quin, compared to her easygoing daughter.

“I hope she can make a go of it. Not the easiest business around here. But she’s stubborn.” Mrs. Wannassay tucked the strap of her purse more securely into her cart and pushed her purse to the side.

He caught a glimpse of the headline of the night’s Vancouver newspaper folded into her cart.

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