Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

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Cara Colter. Meet Me Under the Mistletoe

“So …” He took her cue and changed the subject, all business. “A real tree fetches a pretty good price in the city?”

Meet Me Under the Mistletoe. Cara Colter

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Hanna nodded. “A king’s ransom. Mistletoe is even more dear.”

Oh, gee, did she have to bring up mistletoe? Around him, of all people?

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Sam slammed to full halt, and leaped from his vehicle and raced around the front. The gnome was on its knees, untouched by the vehicle, spitting out snow. A tubby, dun-colored pony with a scruffy black mane, snow caught in a shaggy coat, was nearly beneath his bumper.

It wagged its fur-and-snow-matted legs in the air, then grunted, and leapt to its feet. It gave him a look that appeared to be loaded with malice before it staggered to one side of the road and glared balefully back at them. Sam moved toward it, but the pony shuffled away, backing up one step for his every step forward.

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