The Most Wonderful Time of the Year?
READING AGE 18+
Autumn is doing what she does best. Holding her life together, while trying to act like everything is just fine! Especially to her family…
Her family, that Autumn has avoided for the past three years because they belittle her and make her feel inferior. They don’t know that her so-called perfect life is slowly falling apart, not to mention that her ’amazing’ husband was never all that amazing at anything, other than cheating… oh, and now leaving her.
Life truly could not be much better for Autumn… until her mother decides it would be the perfect time for her to return home – for the holidays!
Autumn’s first holidays alone, and forced quality family time with people that she spent most of her time avoiding – what more could a girl want?!
Yet Autumn finds herself surrounded by her family and their friends as their drink away the holiday season, wishing she was anywhere else but there… until a familiar face offers some unexpected relief. Theo, an old childhood friend is home for the holidays too, and is more than happy to save Autumn from the hell she finds herself in.
Could Theo bring a certain sparkle back into Autumn’s life when she most certainly did not expect it? Maybe the holidays weren’t as bad as expected after all…
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With heat rushing to my cheeks, so humiliated by the whole situation, I was needing to get out of the room. I was rushing for the door, when Autumn took me by surprise and all but pinned me to the door. Her shove was notably lighter this time, perhaps fearful she may knock me to the floor again. Who knows? But, I was taken by……
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