Will fate allow Gloria to make the right choices for love?
Avoiding My Merry Birthday
by Sonja Gunter
Genre: Holiday Romance
What
would life be like to share your birthday with millions of
people?
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Born and raised in the cold and beautiful Minnesota, she escaped to Illinois for seventeen years to raise two boys, and now calls Florida home. She and her husband Andy, who’s always her hero, have a new family to worry about; Cookie, an Assui-Po dog and Chip, a ragdoll cat, that their sons compare to Eeyore.
She loves to travel, read, and bowl. You can catch her writing her next novel at the lanes.
Sonja encourages you to check out her web site, www.sonjagunter.com for more info and don’t be surprised if she lets her Norwegian heritage come through in her stories. You betcha!
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Ending the call, she manually unlocked the car door and
got into the driver’s seat. She tried the ignition, just for
the heck of it, but the engine did not even make a
grinding noise. She hit the steering wheel with the palm
of her hand, and cried out, “Ouch.”
It hadn’t been worth the effort. She massaged her hand.
Deciding to make the most of her time, she checked
Facebook to see if anyone had left her a birthday message
there. When none came up, she clicked her off her
phone and sat in a lonely silence.
An unusual bright light reflected in her rear-view mirror.
Squinting, she tried to make out who had joined in the
parking lot. Was that the tow truck? How could help have
arrived so soon? A low hum of music seeped through
the air. Frowning, she tilted her head for a better angle to
hear where it was coming from.
“Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh...”
Grimacing at the driver’s choice of songs, Gloria slid out
of the driver’s seat to watch a red tow-truck with a wreath
on the grill come closer. The Christmas music was now
blaring so loud she was tempted to cover her ears. The
driver must really like the age-old song, she thought.
The truck stopped in front of her car, and she bent
over to retrieve her purse from the car.
“Ho, ho, ho. I heard you’re having a problem.”
The deep voice struck a chord to a long-ago memory
from her childhood.
“Aren’t you into the holiday spirit?” She straightened
and turned. “Sorry you had to come out on Christmas
Eve—”
Gloria flung her arms outward to gain some balance
as she felt herself falling. “Ohhhh, nooooo...”
Unable to evade the expected outcome, she held out her
hand as she hit the ground hard. Her body jerked and
then fell backward, causing her head to hit the pavement.
Pain like a mother migraine surged from the back of her
head to her forehead. She felt strong arms wrap around
her upper body, lifting her. Before the expected blackness
took over, she was able to fixate on a familiar pair of blue
eyes.
“Nick?
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