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

“Should I ask?” Sara came to stand by his side to fill her coffee cup.


“Oh my, you went ice skating after work? Are you, like, into tour-skating or something?”


Victor stared at her. “Jian. He’s made this dating advent calendar, and yesterday he took me to a lake he’d scraped free of snow and placed tiki lights around, and he tried to teach me how to skate. He apparently used to play hockey in the winter when he was a kid.”


Sara chuckled, but her expression was stunned. “He made you a dating advent calendar?”


“It isn’t an actual calendar, but every day when I get home, he has a date planned for us.”


She smiled, but her eyes grew wider. “That’s so…sweet. I-I can’t imagine the amount of work he’s put into planning so many dates.”


“I know.” And Victor hadn’t started to build his website yet.


“So, he’d bought you ice skates, in the right size, scraped a lake, put out torches, and went to get you.”


“In his rusty old pickup.” Victor grinned.


Chapter 38