The White Christmas Inn_A Novel by Colleen Wright

Author:Colleen Wright [Wright, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781508277187
Amazon: 1508277184
Goodreads: 40702097
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 2018-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

“GOOD MORNING, BOBCAT,” LUKE said, stopping at the table where Hannah and Audrey sat finishing their breakfast, in the light-filled dining room next door to the lounge. One whole side of it was nothing but windows, filled with antique glass that had warped ever so faintly over the years. The panes bent and refracted the sunlight that poured through, making it somehow warmer and more gentle.

“Bobcat?” Audrey said, not even making an attempt to stifle her amusement.

“Sure,” Luke said easily. “She’s always been Bobcat.” He turned to Hannah. “You never told her that, Bobcat?”

Hannah shook her head. She appreciated Luke’s attempts to cheer her up, but last night hadn’t been an easy one, full of doubts and questions about Trevor, as well as some moments of genuine fury. Everyone else was fresh and rested, but she felt exhausted.

“He came up with that when we were twelve,” she told Audrey. “I couldn’t get him to stop calling me that.”

“And you won’t have any more luck now,” Luke said. “For one thing, now it’s classic. For another, what are you supposed to call a girl who drives a piece of expensive construction equipment around the circle drive at fifty miles an hour?”

“It wasn’t fifty miles an hour,” Hannah protested. “Those things don’t go that fast.”

“I was there,” Luke said sagely. “I saw what I saw.”

Even in her weakened state, Hannah couldn’t let this pass. “I thought you called me Bobcat because you could never beat me in a race,” she said, with a hint of a wicked grin.

“There she is!” Luke said, grinning back. “That’s the Hannah I know.”

Hannah felt a little surge of pride as he said it, but it was quickly followed by a twinge. They hadn’t seen each other in years. They couldn’t really know each other, after all that time. Not the way Trevor had known her.

But he was right, at least, about the girl she used to be. Which one was more true to who she really was? she wondered. The girl he remembered, or the woman she was now? And where had all the fire inside that girl gone?

Luke clapped his hands. “Okay, kids,” he began.

“What is this,” Audrey interrupted, “summer camp?”

“It’s winter camp,” Luke said. “And your morning activity, Bobcat, is to help me feed the sheep.”

He looked at his wrist, pretending to read an imaginary watch. “Get your boots on,” he said. “I’ll see you at the door in three minutes.”

“I don’t know if I feel like . . .” Hannah began.

Under the table, Audrey delivered a quick kick to her shin. “She’ll be there,” she said.

“I didn’t even bring boots,” Hannah objected to her.

“We will find you some boots,” Audrey said. “Boots are the least of our worries. Think of those poor sheep. Don’t you care about their needs?”

“That’s the spirit,” Luke said, winking as he walked away.

Five minutes later, Hannah stood in the entryway of the inn, bundled in a wool flannel jacket and boots, both procured by Audrey after a conversation with Iris, who had proven to wear her same size shoe.

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