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    A Very Haven Christmas: Haven Brook, #4
    A Very Haven Christmas: Haven Brook, #4
    A Very Haven Christmas: Haven Brook, #4
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    A Very Haven Christmas: Haven Brook, #4

    By Samantha Baca

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    Life is full of secrets, so it shouldn't be any shock that I had a few of my own. Being a single mother to three— technically four if you count my son's best friend— overly protective men made it hard to share the big news with them.

    Christmas is supposed to be a happy time for family to come together and enjoy the festivities, so why did I feel like I was sitting on pins and needles?

    I've never needed the approval of anyone before. Why was I suddenly so nervous? Maybe it was just nerves, or maybe it was the butterflies that made me feel alive again for the first time in forever.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSamantha Baca
    Release dateDec 7, 2020
    ISBN9798201287801
    A Very Haven Christmas: Haven Brook, #4

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      A Very Haven Christmas - Samantha Baca

      Haven Brook Series

      ’Til Death Do Us Part

      The Cradle Will Fall

      The Ties That Bind

      A Very Haven Christmas

      Three Strikes, You’re Gone

      Copyright © 2020 by Samantha Baca.

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by information storage and retrieval system, without written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law. This book is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

      Cover Design: Richard Baca

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      O h my, I whispered as he planted kisses down my neck and along my collar bone. It had been so long since a man had touched me and I felt like my body was on fire. My heart raced as my fingers itched to reach out and touch his body. For a man approaching sixty, he had the stamina and finesse of a man in his twenties.

      I felt his hand slowly move up to caress my breast under the warmth of my knit sweater. I glanced to the side, checking the time on the clock that sat next to the bed on the nightstand. The kids would be here in less than thirty minutes which meant I needed to get him out of the house before they got here.

      We have to stop, the kids will be here soon for Christmas dinner, I breathed as his body pressed down on mine, the bulge in his pants forcing a whimper to escape from my throat.

      Okay, he breathed as he kept kissing, slowly dipping his tongue beneath the top of my sweater that he had been pulled down low enough to almost show my bra. But I need to give you my Christmas gift before I go.

      We already exchanged gifts, remember that nice watch I gave you and the beautiful necklace you bought me? I giggled as he nipped at the lace of my bra.

      Yeah, both of those were great. But I’m about to give you the gift you really want, the gift that neither of us can get enough of. His voice was low and husky, filled with arousal.

      I planted my hand against his chest and popped up on my elbows as I looked at him. He stopped, confused as he tried to figure out what happened.

      Wait— you mean to tell me that you’re cooking dinner for me today? I joked as I struggled to keep my face straight. I watched the smile pull across his gorgeous face, up to his golden-brown eyes.

      You know I would in a heartbeat, sweetheart, he said as he leaned forward and kissed my forehead. But we’re not ready for your kids to find out about us yet.

      I know, I sighed as I laid back down and looked up at him. I’m sorry.

      I felt an enormous amount of guilt that I had been hiding my relationship from my kids for three months but there had been so much going on that it never felt like the right time to tell them that I was seeing someone. He was the first person I had dated since their father passed away eleven years ago, and honestly, I never thought I would ever love another man the way I had loved my husband.

      Don’t be sorry, it’ll happen when the time is right, he assured me as he lifted himself off of me and climbed over to the empty side of the bed. The mood was totally killed and I felt terrible about it.

      I better get going, he said, smiling as he bent down and picked up his jeans from the floor, sliding them up his muscular legs and zipping them as my eyes focused on the bulge that was still there. His chuckle forced my eyes up to look at him. Don’t worry, I’ll come back when the coast is clear and we’ll finish our gift exchange, he teased.

      I stayed in bed for a few minutes, watching him finish dressing as he pulled the t-shirt down over his head, hiding the perfectly sculpted abs that I had run my tongue down not that long ago. This man was far from anything I had ever pictured, even in my wildest fantasies after reading my romance novels. He was pure masculinity with an erotic twist that made me weak in the knees.

      A few minutes later I had climbed out of bed and put on the rest of my clothes, giggling when I

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