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

“Let’s try it.” Jian put the tip of the drill to the surface and began making a hole. Victor watched the ice building up around it. It didn’t take too long before water splashed over it, and Jian dipped the drill in a few times to wash away the ice.


“I’ll make one here too.” He took a few steps away and got drilling again. “You can start with that hole.”


Victor stared. “Start? How do I start?”


Jian grinned. “Pop the fishing lure into the hole and do what the others do.”


Victor looked around. Everyone was sitting on tiny stools and waving their rods up and down


“Drop it into the hole, let it fall down to the bottom, and reel in a little. Then you jiggle it.”


Chapter 20