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

He walked briskly into the living room where Jian was waiting. “Ready?”


“I think so.” He ran his hands down the sides of his suit jacket.


Jian wrapped an arm around him. “You look dashing,” he mumbled right before nipping at Victor’s earlobe. A shiver traveled down his spine.


“Come on.” Jian grabbed his hand and led him out into the snowy weather. He grimaced at the sky. “I hope the roads are okay.”


“Where are we going?” If they were heading to Snowmelt or Nortown or some other small place, they were doomed.


“Whiteport.” Jian gave him a guilty look. “It’ll be late before we’re back, but I have fixed a lunch box for you, and you can nap in the truck while I drive.”


Victor squeezed his hand. “It’s fine.” And Jian had an early morning too, earlier than he did. Normally, he was gone before Victor got out of bed.


Chapter 13