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

When they got into the pickup, Jian drove them toward Nortown. Victor bit his tongue not to ask what they were doing.


While he drove, Jian was talking about the job he was doing for Dave, and Victor listened with a smile on his lips. It had been ages since Jian had talked to him about his job, and it was nice to see him excited.


When they got to Nortown, Jian passed the parking lot in the center of town, and drove into a clearing in the woods. Victor stared in surprise. “Wow, that’s a lot of cars.” There were cars everywhere. He hadn’t known so many people were living in Nortown.


“Yeah. One of the guys told me they often have village activities here: egg hunts at Easter, a bonfire at the end of April, stuff like that.” He shrugged.


“Most creative snowman wins.” Jian gestured at a mountain of snow someone had dropped in the middle of the clearing.


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