Chapter Forty-Three

Nicholas

Nicholas reached the town’s Welcome Home sign that was situated on the county line and he kept right on running until it felt like his lungs would give right out.

He needed to see Molly.

There wasn’t any other way.

On the run over, he’d thought through all the coincidences in the car and all the coincidences in his life that led him to Molly Carmichael. He’d thought about her love of the Christmas holiday and the odds of her working for his parents, the timing of neither one of them currently being in a romantic relationship, his own disinterest in running the store making her want to put in the effort to convince him otherwise, making her want to spend time with him.

Everything just made too much sense, without making any sense at all.

And because he couldn’t explain everything logically away, he needed to find at least one answer.

The answer to the question that was burning right through his core.

He needed to know if Molly Carmichael felt the same thing he did. Did she fee