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Title: Let It Snow
Author: Cassie Cross
Genre: Holiday Romance
About Let It Snow:
Amy Winstead is a twenty something video producer who loves Christmas more than anyone she’s ever known. This year, the holidays are gonna be a lot less happy because she can’t afford the plane ticket home to celebrate with her family, and her best and oldest friend Josh is moving halfway across the country for a new job that he couldn’t turn down.Get Your Copy!
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Fate blessed me the moment Josh
Abbott came into my life. It was just before his first birthday, when I was six
weeks old. My mom set me down across his lap, posing us for a picture that I
keep a copy of on my phone, one that’s framed and displayed on the fireplace
mantel at my parents’ house.
In it, Josh is wearing this little
yellow and blue striped t-shirt, his blonde hair a cute mess that was his
trademark until we graduated from high school. I have on a light pink onesie
with a hood that has ears on it. Josh grins down at me as I hold his finger in
a white-knuckled grip.
Mom says neither one of us wanted to
let go that day, and that’s when she and Josh’s mom, Gloria, knew we’d be best
friends forever.
Twenty-six years later, we’re still
inseparable…for the next six days, at least. That’s when Josh is loading up his
car and making the drive from Austin to Connecticut to start a new job that he
just couldn’t turn down. They offered him almost double his current salary; I
can’t really blame him for ditching me right before my favorite holiday,
honestly.
I’m trying to learn how to deal with
it. Most days, I desperately lie to myself about how living without him won’t
be as bad as I think. Then I wind up flip-flopping between being irrationally
angry at him and unfathomably sad. I’m constantly 100% head-over-heels in love
with him.
That’s my little secret, though.
For one brief moment, I had a sliver
of hope that we were on the same page. He invited me out to dinner at our
favorite place, and I’d gotten swept up in fantasies that he’d take my hands
across the table, smile that gorgeous smile of his and say, “Ames, I’m in love
with you.”
What he actually said was, “Ames,
I’m moving back home. I got a job in New York.”
I can’t blame him for trying to
soften the blow with barbecue, but I lost my appetite after that.
I haven’t really gotten it back.
It’s worked out in my favor for the most part, since this time of year I’m
working a schedule that doesn’t allow much time for eating. I’m an
editor/producer for a social media baking star. We’re about four months ahead
in the production schedule, so while it’s Christmas in real time, it’s been
Easter in my world for the past few weeks. I’ve barely had time for a real
meal, so I’ve basically just been inhaling the baked goods after we’ve finished
taking pictures of them for Instagram.
Yesterday, I had a handful of
almonds and a sizable portion of a bunny’s butt made out of yellow cake,
raspberry jam, and the most amazingly fluffy buttercream frosting I’ve ever
had.
At this point, my body is screaming,
NUTRIENTS, PLEASE!
Josh knows me like the back of his
hand, and has some kind of weird internal alarm that sounds whenever I’ve gone
a few days without eating a vegetable. I’m positive that’s why he invited me
over to eat, and why I gave him a hard time before I said yes.
I know I’m lucky to have a friend
like him. He’s smart, he’s fun, he’s funny, and it doesn’t hurt that he’s
model-gorgeous and an absolute pleasure to look at, especially when he’s in the
kitchen making me dinner.
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