Holiday Hearts
Sure enough, there was hot chocolate waiting in the parlor.
"The sampler's different," Noel said, pacing the room with his mug. "Come look at this."
Shelby stood and crossed to the sampler on the wall. She cleaned off her glasses and put them back on, staring at the small panel of cross-stitch as she read it out loud. "The sweetest gift of all is when two hearts are given and accepted in return."
"Sounds appropriately Victorian," Noel commented. "And quite probably very true."
Shelby shrugged. "Maybe that's what it really said all along," she suggested. "And it only changed to inform us about what we needed to know."
Hot Chapters