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

“I came,” Jared said to him with urgency.


“I came. I came to South Korea. Pusan,” Jared said. “It has a different name now by the way.”


“What do you mean? I never saw you. How could you have come to Pusan? They had already filled your job.”


“It was about six months after you left. I went by the office, the main one for the company that hired you. I told them that I was a friend of yours, and that I was visiting South Korea. I said that I was in Pusan for the day and that I wanted to see you. They gave me the name and address of the school. I got there sometime after lunch, and I waited outside, across the street. There were some benches, and a cart that sold food.”


“I wanted to see you. A couple of hours later, a horde of smiling children practically ran from the building. They were in uniforms. It was such a beautiful day.”


“I loved the afternoons there,” David said.


Chapter 16