The Perfect Christmas
Who mails out Christmas cards before Thanksgiving?" Cassie Beaumont lamented to her best friend.
Angie Barber looked up from her microscope and seemed to take an extra moment to consider what Cassie had just said. "You got a Christmas card? Already?"
Cassie wheeled her chair back to her station. "Can you believe it?"
"Who from?"
"An old college friend. You wouldn't know her." Cassie shrugged. "Jill married Tom two weeks after we graduated."
"They have children?"
Cassie caught the wisp of longing in Angie's voice and answered with a nod. "Two, a boy and a girl, and of course they're adorable."
"Of course," Angie echoed.
The Christmas card photo showed the four of them in matching outfits of green and red. The mother and daughter wore full-length green dresses with red-and-green plaid skirts. Father and son had on three-piece suits with vests in the same fabric as the dress skirts. It was too adorable for words.
"There was a letter, as well."
"Everything in their lives is perfect, right?" Angie asked.
"Perfect in every way," Cassie grumbled. The unfairness of ... read full excerpt from: The Perfect Christmas ebook