A Kiss In Winter
Chapter One
Five years later
Mom would have been sad today. She would have been waiting here with
tears in her eyes.
Caroline knew this because on the day she'd picked up her own senior
year schedule, she'd come out of this very same high school to find her
adoptive mother, Macie, and Sam's natural mother sitting in the car
sniffling. Her mother had put a smile on her face and said how excited she was
for Caroline. But there was a pile of crumpled tissues on the car seat that
said otherwise.
It seemed so wrong for Caroline to be sitting in her mother's stead,
waiting for Macie to pick up her schedule with her heart beating in joyful
anticipation.
Maybe it was shame, maybe it was the August heat, or maybe it was the
disgraceful excitement-in any case, sweat beaded on Caroline's brow
and dampened her shirt, and her hair clung uncomfortably to the nape of her
neck. She lifted her hair and fanned herself with the notice for a certified
letter she'd been holding with a death grip since she'd found it in
the mailbox.
Macie a senior. It had once seemed this day would never come. But the ... read full excerpt from A Kiss in Winter ebook
