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    The Christmas Sweater
    The Christmas Sweater
    The Christmas Sweater
    Ebook56 pages44 minutes

    The Christmas Sweater

    By Kasssanna

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    Best friends...Better lovers...Maybe...
    Scotland Reeves has known Macrina Welsh since childhood. They grew up together as best friends. His problem. How to get out of the friend zone. His love for her and her daughter Teeka trumped everything else. If only he could get Mac to realize that.
    Macrina Welsh understood Scot like she knew herself. There was nothing he could do that she didn't know about. Which was exactly why they couldn't be more than friends. Why ruin a good thing?
    But Teeka Welsh has a list and it involves Mrs. Claus, an ugly sweater, her two grandmother's and a party. Who says a four year old can't make things right?
    Christmas will never be the same.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKasssanna
    Release dateDec 23, 2018
    ISBN9780463740088
    The Christmas Sweater
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    Kasssanna

    Kassanna is a strong believer in love at first sight and happily ever afters. After meeting her husband in November and marrying him three months later in February the two have survived and mostly enjoyed every adventure life has thrown their way. Ten years, two children, a couple of dogs and a wild turkey that came out the woods and somehow adopted them - later- the adventure continues.Writing has always been her passion but fate sometimes has other roads that must first be taken . Navigating the road less traveled was not only unexpected but in the end extremely rewarding. Her books are mainly contemporary romance but she has delved into the paranormal and plans on expanding into other areas as the ideas come to her. Right now she is enjoying life and seeing her work come into fruition make it that much more pleasurable especially when her books make others smile. Kassanna wouldn't have it any other way.

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      Book preview

      The Christmas Sweater - Kasssanna

      The Christmas Sweater

      BY

      Kassanna

      *****

      Copyright © Dec 2018, Kassanna

      Cover art by C.V.A Dwight Copyright © November 2018

      This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this novel are fictitious or used fictitiously. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.

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      Florida, USA

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      Chapter One

      Thursday

      Mother Nature is bi-polar. Earlier in the week it was a balmy seventy-eight degrees. Today it was in the lower forties and dropping fast. Crap, he would have to get Teeka a jacket. Did Mac pack her one? Aww shit, he should’ve checked first. Scotland Reeves wiped a big palm down his face. Mac had to pack Teeka a coat – something. She was a mother for God’s sake; making sure her kid has the right clothes should be instinctive. He shook his head. Maybe not, knowing Mac.

      Scot twisted in his seat and met Teeka’s wide eyed caramel-colored gaze. Tiki, did Mom pack you another coat?

      Tiki was the nickname he’d given her at birth. The face she made, screaming while being held up by the doctor minutes after entering the world, reminded him of the totems he’d seen while traveling. Babies were not born cute. It was his first and last time witnessing a birth. After his best friend’s boyfriend married a mutual friend – unexpectedly…the whole situation was a true mess. A week later Mac found out she was pregnant. He’d promised Macrina Welsh that if she chose to have Teeka he would stay with her every step of the way. And he had. But this was the first time he was keeping Tiki overnight, alone. Granted she was four and fairly self sufficient, but he was nervous. He’d made the offer when Mac complained about not being able to find a decent babysitter for the evening while she went out on a date.

      He sighed. He was behaving like a damn woman with all his emotions bottled up inside him. A bolt of – he wouldn’t exactly call it jealousy. His feeling might be in that neighborhood but it was not that, really. He was feeling something, and he had the right to, dammit. She hadn’t gone out with anyone since Tiki was born; it was always the three of them together.

      He’d been friend zoned in high school and he accepted that. They’d been best friends since they were six years old. He hugged her, bought her ice cream and plied her with liquor, whatever the occasion demanded. She’d done the same for him. Along the way, things changed. He looked forward to being with her. Hell, he even enjoyed changing Tiki’s diapers, sharing those monumental moments with her - them - like the baby’s first words, her first steps.

      Teeka was the miniature image of her mother with smooth peanut butter-colored skin, big brown eyes and an infectious, genuine smile. The only difference was her daughter’s eyes were much lighter than Mac’s. The little girl also had a head full of thick, sandy brown, tight curls. Mac liked to keep her daughter’s hair loose in an unruly afro but sometimes she would braid it or keep it in ponytails. In one moment of desperation when Mac was sick, she’d directed Scot in how to wash and comb Teeka’s hair. They were all traumatized.

      Through it all and somewhere along the line, his feelings for Mac became something more. That more had a name he wasn’t ready to own up to. So, he stayed quiet and now some jughead was stepping in on his territory.

      Daddy? Tiki waved a hand.

      Around the age of two, Tiki started calling him dad. He didn’t mind, but Mac always corrected her. Secretly, he allowed Tiki to call him that whenever Mac wasn’t around. He’d picked up Tiki at daycare and she would hang out with him at his office until he finished with his patients and took her home. He had a couple of hours before his afternoon rush of patients and promised Teeka that he would take her Christmas shopping.

      Aren’t you getting out? Blu Simpson, his office manager leaned in, maneuvering so her cheek was a few inches from his.

      He didn’t invite her to come with

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