The Mistletoe Affair

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“You know what? How's Santa gonna land without Grandpa's runway lights?” five-year-old Matt asked.

Katherine Cahill squinted from Friday's midday sun and pointed to the candy-cane lights that hugged the walkways of her mother's Houston home. She did not relish the idea of climbing this roof as she did at their home in Sugar Land. With her fingers crossed, she prayed her son would believe Santa now had adequate lights to land safely.

His dark eyebrows furrowed. “You gonna put ‘em on the roof so Santa and Rudolph can see real good like Grandpa used to do?"

Matt's ‘like Grandpa used to do’ brought back a rush of painful memories of the loving father who had lost a long battle to cancer ten months ago. She'd made a promise to look after everyone. Their first Christmas without him would be especially hard for everyone, unless she made it right. She intended to help both Matt and her mother, who recently underwent painful hip surgery, have a wonderful Christmas. That's what Dad would have wanted her to do.

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