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

“I’ll sit here.” He didn’t know what motif he got, there were numbers everywhere.


“Good, now drink this.” Jian poured more wine into his glass and put on some Christmas music in the background.


“If I drink it, I willpaint outside the lines.”


Jian raised an eyebrow at him “Did you miss the winein the wine and paint date?”


Victor huffed, sipped on the wine, and tried to figure out where to start painting. “Shit, there are so many numbers.”


“Uh-huh.” Jian sat and stared at his painting. “I think I’ll do the people first.”


Jian nodded, a look of concentration on his face. He took a toffee, unwrapped it, and popped it into his mouth. “If I mess up, I can paint snow over them, right?”


Chapter 31