A few days before Christmas, David Weathers finds himself hopping a plane to his childhood home in Florida and doesn’t know why. His parents are gone, he has no siblings, yet something draws him on.<br><br>David can almost feel the magic in the air, but then he discovers Jared Acosta, the man who broke his heart twenty years earlier, has moved three doors away. Reluctantly David accepts Jared’s invitation to dinner, only to find that twenty years may not be enough for some wounds to heal.<br><br>Soon David seeks advice from his mother’s best friend Marisol, a vibrant, wise woman who believes in second chances. Can she convince David to take a chance on the man who is working so hard to be near him now? Will he be able to forgive a past that left both him and Jared unlucky in love?

Little Tree

Jared nodded, and then fiercely kissed David into silence.


David wiped Jared’s tears, and leaned to kiss his eyelids. “I’m here now. I’m not going anywhere.”


Jared nodded, and then sobbed. His face was red and tense, and tears gushed from him hot and volcanic. David pulled Jared’s to his chest. He kissed the top of David’s head and whispered, “You’re tired, my love.”


Jared nodded into David’s chest, and encircled him with his arms. David reached over and turned off the light. They slept deeply that night, never apart.


In the morning, Jared was bright and cheery again.


“How about Stone Mountain?” he asked, walking out of the bathroom freshly showered and wearing only a towel.


“Hiking?” David asked, rising in the bed.


“All of it,” Jared said, throwing a swim suit at David.


Chapter 8