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

David nodded his head, trying for a smile. Jared had taken the long way, and now they would be on quieter roads with lots of red lights. David wasn’t sure that he was up for talking the whole way.


“It’s great seeing the beaches area again. I haven’t been here in a while,” David said, turning his head and looking away from Jared and toward the many hotels and businesses that lined Third Street.


As they drove, hitting red light after red light, David waited for Jared to say something, but he didn’t. He knew. He knew exactly what David was feeling and he was being respectful of it. Or maybe he just didn’t care. Maybe he had no clue that David was still pissed after all these years. No matter what the reason, it didn’t matter. They sat in silence, David looking into the night.


Chapter 14