Merry & Sprite by Dani Lakely EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Dani Lakely
- Language: English
- Genre: Holiday Romance
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EVERYTHING IS GOING according to plan until the electric organ kicks
in. It’s four o’clock on a Friday afternoon and Jonathan is torn between
canceling the tea shop’s solstice poetry reading and strangling Forrest
Wilde.
Jonathan’s gone all out to make TranquiliTea’s annual event memorable
for their customers. It’s an entire afternoon spent in the patio garden giving
his best attempt at a celebration of the season. Mini chocolate fig cakes and
cranberry oatmeal cookies are stacked beside a special winter tea blend.
Garlands of hand-cut paper snowflakes hang over poinsettias displayed
back-to-back in vibrant reds and whites on a raised wooden platform. The
stage is set and ready for guests.
The bar across the street turns the dial up another notch. Forrest is over
there blasting surf rock at a decibel level so obscene that Jonathan’s
grandfather back home in Connecticut can probably hear it.
On any normal day, the outdoor speakers at Be Hoppy don’t pick up
until well after the tea shop closes its doors. But it’s a few weeks before
Christmas and all the college kids are back in town—cue the day drinking
and screaming singalongs.
Throwing the snowflake staff in his hand to the ground, Jonathan
stomps over to the bar, nearly tripping on the hem of the Old Man Winter
costume he’s wearing. The blue robe with intricate swirls of white and
matching stocking cap are suffocating in the seventy-degree Southern
California heat. There’s a lengthy white wig with an attached beard stuffed
underneath his hat that he’s given serious thought to ripping off at least six
times. Jonathan completed the look with a plastic ice crystal glued to the
end of a broomstick. Or, rather, it was glued before he hurled the staff to the
pavement.
There’s a strong possibility that his costume is coming off less as
the personification of winter and more like the Cookie Crisp Wizard.
When he shoves open the door to Be Hoppy, he’s hit with a blast of
Christmas and takes a brief moment to glower at all the cheer. String lights
cast a warm glow over the countertop and vintage wooden booths, wreaths
of driftwood and sea glass line the walls, and garlands of hop vines drape
over the back of the bar.
But the highlight is definitely the tree at the entrance, thick with dark
green needles and standing at least ten feet tall. It’s bursting with the festive
bright lights and colors of the winter holidays, and Jonathan can smell the
freshly cut fir as he takes a step inside.
A little black cat greets him at the welcome mat with a cry that Jonathan
recognizes as one asking for immediate attention. He reaches down to give
her a pat on the head.
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