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

He kissed Jian goodbye and dove for the cleaning closet where they kept the wrapping paper. His handwriting wasn’t pretty, but he wrote as nice a card as he could, and wrapped it in red paper with silvery snowflakes on it. He did the same with the massages but picked a different paper—blue with snowmen. Once he was done, he ran for the computer.


An hour and a half later, Jian turned into the driveway, and Victor hurried to save and close the website and turn off the computer. He hurried to the puzzle, and tried to make it look like he’d been at it for a while. When Jian didn’t come in, he stopped faking and began fitting pieces together for real. What was taking him so long?


As he was about to go and make sure he hadn’t fallen and hurt himself in the garage, Jian walked into the house. He had a panicked look in his eyes, and Victor instantly went on alert. “What happened?”


Chapter 43