When Victor Hill bought a house with his boyfriend, Jian Kouri it was a dream come true. But now, two years later, instead of living their happily ever after, they hardly see the other awake.<br><br>With Jian out the door before Victor gets up in the morning, and asleep on the couch nearly as soon as he walks in the door, the life Victor imagined couldn’t be further from reality. They don’t talk; they don’t touch, and Victor fears he and Jian have already drifted too far apart.<br><br>The holiday season is a time for hope, but when Victor comes home to find Jian with a plan to woo him for Christmas, is it too little, too late? The dates are great, and there are filled with Christmas fun to get Victor in the right spirit for the holiday, but are they enough for the two of them to fall in love again? Or is there just too much in their relationship that needs fixing?

24 Dates

Victor’s heart somersaulted. “Thank you.”


Jian adjusted his seat and steered out of the parking lot. “Did you have a good day?”


“Same as always.” He shrugged. He didn’t mind his job, but it wasn’t like he looked forward to going there either. “One of the teachers had to go home in the middle of the day. Threw up during a lesson.” Victor shook his head. “I hope it isn’t the stomach flu.”


Jian gave him a wide-eyed look. “Did you talk to them in person?”


Jian blew out a breath. “Good. We don’t have time to get sick.” We?


“Lots to do at work?” The disappointment raining over him was chilling. It had been great to get to see Jian while he was still awake these last three days.


Jian shrugged. “There are a lot of things I have to fix.”


Damn. Victor didn’t ask what things, and he remained silent for a few minutes. Jian drove out of Northfield and turned east.


Chapter 4