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

“Anyway, I figured, eat your fill now, and when we get home we can re-heat some of it so we don’t have to cook.”


Victor nodded and sat. “When we get home?”


“Yes, we might not feel like cooking when we do.” He winked.


Victor nodded and put some pancakes in his mouth. Delicious. The coffee was too. “Are the roads okay to travel?”


“I’ve listened to the local news all morning.” He gestured at the radio on the kitchen counter. “The road to Whiteport should be okay. Snowmelt is blocked, though.”


Victor nodded. It didn’t surprise him. It had snowed a lot in the last few days.


“They think they’ll be able to get it open by lunchtime.”


“Good.” Getting snowed in this close to Christmas wasn’t ideal.


After breakfast, Victor asked what he should wear and got the reply that he was good to go as he was, which he suspected meant they were going somewhere where they’d be indoors and where you didn’t have to dress up.


Chapter 40