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

“Did I freak you out?” He peeked up at him through half-closed eyes.


“No…It’s…When this month started I didn’t know if we were going to make it, as a couple, I mean. And now we’re engaged, we have a cat, and you’re talking babies.”


Jian chuckled, but his eyes closed. “We were always going to make it, love. Always. I just had to take the step and leave work, but I wasn’t brave enough to do it before it was almost too late.” He opened his eyes. “I love you, and I never want to live a day without you in my life.”


Victor nodded, unable to get any words out. “Your gifts are downstairs.”


“Yeah?” Jian smiled a sleepy smile. “You want to get up?”


Jian reached into the pocket of his pajama pants and pulled out a string with a toffee wrapper tied to it. Victor laughed. “What’s that?”


“She might be scared, but she loves to play. This—” He dangled the toffee wrapper. “—is how I lured her out of the cat carrier.”


Chapter 44