Mistletoe Cinderella
It was a bad sign when you were feeling envious of the person in the casket.
Chloe Malcolm winced at her own thoughts, which were highly inappropriate and completely out of character. Chloe was always appropriate; it was one of the things Aunt Jane had teased her about. Swallowing a knot of emotion, Chloe smiled at her aunt's peaceful face. As far as Chloe knew, Jane Walters had never once in her sixty-three years worried about decorum. It was that free-spiritedness Chloe envied.
Aunt Jane had appalled Chloe's parents by nicknaming her niece "Wheezy," making the childhood asthma Chloe later outgrew seem like more of an in-joke than a handicap. I'm going to miss you. Jane hadn't spent much time here in Mistletoetoo busy running with the bulls in Pamplona or, more recently, hot-air ballooning over Flagstaffbut each of her visits had been memorable.
"How are you holding up?"
Chloe turned to see blond and beautiful Natalie Young, her best friend and manager of the town's flower shop. "Okay. I know she wouldn't have any regrets and wouldn't want any of us moping. She was just so full of life that it's hard to believe
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