No Christmas Like the Present (2014)
“The words I killed an angel kept running through her head all day. This never would have happened to him if it hadn’t been for her.
He denied being an angel. But he’d never been anything but kind to her, and for the life of her, Lindsay couldn’t think of any good she’d ever done him. If he wasn’t an angel, what was he?
The front doorstep was dark when she put her key in the lock. December twenty-third, one of the shortest days of the year. No lights from her tree glowed through the curtains of ...the front window; she should have turned the tree on for Fred. If he’d been able-bodied at all, surely he would have turned the tree lights on himself.
If he was still there.
With that last thought, she shouldered her way into the apartment, afraid of what she’d find.
She entered quickly enough to see Fred’s head jerk as he started awake. He still lay slumped on the couch, very similar to the position she’d left him in this morning, his head raised slightly from propping the pillow on the arm of the couch.MoreLess
He denied being an angel. But he’d never been anything but kind to her, and for the life of her, Lindsay couldn’t think of any good she’d ever done him. If he wasn’t an angel, what was he?
The front doorstep was dark when she put her key in the lock. December twenty-third, one of the shortest days of the year. No lights from her tree glowed through the curtains of ...the front window; she should have turned the tree on for Fred. If he’d been able-bodied at all, surely he would have turned the tree lights on himself.
If he was still there.
With that last thought, she shouldered her way into the apartment, afraid of what she’d find.
She entered quickly enough to see Fred’s head jerk as he started awake. He still lay slumped on the couch, very similar to the position she’d left him in this morning, his head raised slightly from propping the pillow on the arm of the couch.MoreLess
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