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

A good fifteen minutes later, Jian appeared with a hard hat, a screwdriver, and a saw. He held up the tools to Victor and grimaced. “I have no top hats or carrots in the car.”


Laughter bubbled out of Victor at the miserable look on Jian’s face. “So you figured we’d turn him into a construction worker?”


Victor shook his head. “No, we won’t.” He took the orange hard hat from Jian and placed it on the head of the snowman. “Do you have nuts and bolts and stuff?”


“Good, make his face.” Victor took the saw and tried to figure out how to make it so the snowman was holding it. He held the saw up to the side of the snowman. The top of it touching the ground looked all wrong, he’d have to have orangutan arms to be able to reach the handle.


Chapter 33