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

Victor shrugged. “Too bad. A cat would be fun. And remember last year when the mouse got in? I bet it wouldn’t happen if we had a cat.” He ripped open the plastic bag with the puzzle pieces and poured them out onto the table.


“This is a lot of pieces, Jian.” Victor frowned at the pile.


“Idiot. Okay, let’s do the frame first.”


Victor stared at him. “Are you mentally challenged? We need the frame so we know how big it’ll be and see where everything should go.”


“Let’s agree to disagree. You build the frame, I’ll do the cats.”


Jian widened his eyes. “So do cats.”


Victor threw his hands in the air. “But it’s the wrong way to solve a jigsaw.”


Victor stared at him, wanting to be angry, but…there were no rules about how to solve a jigsaw. “Fine, we’ll do it your way.”


Chapter 42