Second Chance Christmas (Harlequin American Romance\The Colorado Cades)
Tanya Michaels
Language: English
Pages: 224
ISBN: 0373754833
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A Christmas To Remember…
Ski-lodge manager Elisabeth is the quiet Donnelly twin—sedate, mature, responsible. It wasn't like her to fall in love with ski patroller Justin Cade, famous for his killer smile, blue eyes and way with women. But it was just like him to dump her when things began to get serious.
Now he's suddenly back in her life, and the timing couldn't be worse. Elisabeth has plans to marry a successful businessman, and with Christmas around the corner, she wants to make the holidays special for her adopted young goddaughter. Falling for Justin all over again would definitely not be the sensible thing to do. But maybe, for once in her life, Elisabeth should follow her heart instead of her head.
truly loved a man until Justin. There’d been crushes, of course, and boyfriends about whom she’d cared deeply. But he had been different. Before him, she’d never once rolled over in the morning and thought, That’s the face I want to wake up to for the rest of my life. Even though their relationship hadn’t worked out, maybe he’d opened her up to new possibilities, new depths of feeling. Her time with Justin had been many things—unexpected, adventurous, infuriating, arousing and ultimately
supportive baby sling he’d found in her bag, he headed into the garage. He returned with one string of purple bats and another of orange pumpkins. “These are the best I could do,” he told Kaylee. “A little unorthodox, but they do light up when you plug them in.” Now his crooked tree, which was previously decked in three mismatched ornaments, also bore a popcorn garland, a paper chain soggy with glue and orange-and-purple Halloween lights. Yeah, that’s progress. “Guess it doesn’t look
girl so trustingly curled up against him. “It only makes sense, I’m headed out, too.” Elisabeth nodded, not meeting his gaze. After they buckled Kaylee into her booster seat, would he finally be able to kiss Elisabeth the way he’d wanted to all evening? He wanted to wish her a merry Christmas in a way that went beyond the mere words that everyone from postal workers to store clerks to strangers used. Truthfully, he didn’t have words to capture how he felt about her right now. It was so
death-defying acts you’ve performed on the job? Cades aren’t cowards.” Justin spun around on his stool, looking for a fight. “Oh, really? We’re not cowards? This from the man who ran away from his life—his family, his job, his home? I ran from Elisabeth’s love once before, and now she doesn’t trust that I won’t do it again. Of the three Cade siblings, Arden’s the only one of us with guts. How she found the courage to pursue happiness after the damaged two of us raised her, I’ll never know.”
job I’ve had since the Cavanaugh wedding where the bride wanted a picture with her biological parents—a divorced couple who hadn’t set foot in the same room in seventeen years.” That led into a discussion of Arden’s own wedding plans, and Justin was happy to listen as he polished off the last of his roast beef. Or, at least, half listen. He would take a bullet for his sister, but he wasn’t cut out for conversations about the color of pew-bows. So it took him by surprise when conversation