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

They stepped into the kitchen. “Oh, this is cute.” There was a wood-burning iron stove next to the modern one.


“Looks like it’s been there a long time.” Jian inspected it closely. “I’d say it was installed with the house.”


“We should get one.” It would be so cozy on a winter morning to have wood burning in the kitchen.


Jian grimaced. “I don’t know if we can with our chimney, there have to be the right pipes.”


Jian chuckled. “I’m not saying we can’t, I’m saying I’m not sure we can. We’ll have to check it out. But what if you have it burning hot and your new kitty comes too close?”


Jian looked away. “You were the one who said yetwhen talking about a pet.”


Victor grinned and was about to pull Jian close for a kiss when an older man who was also there to look at the house, glared at them. Jian stiffened and anger welled up inside of Victor. Couldn’t people mind their own fucking business?


Chapter 28