Most authors have a few scenes that are meant for a specific tale and somehow wind up on the cutting room floor, in that under-the-bed box, or maybe just regretfully slashed due to various reasons. Since it is hard to excerpt a novella or short story without a spoiler happening, Josie shares a scene from A Snow White Christmas that didn’t make the published version. To read the rest of the story you have to comment and maybe win it or go to one of those sites in the first post and order a copy! Enjoy this scene:
Fernando hadn’t meant to kiss her, but Margaret had always had that effect on him. He expected her to object, but she clung to him. His sweet Margaret, his snow white.
“This isn’t a good idea.” She ran her hands up his back.
“It’s the only idea,” he said. “Have you missed me?”
She was molding herself to him. “I missed you a little.”
“I missed you, too.” More than she could ever imagine. It had taken him years to get over her, years before his mother forgave Margaret for breaking his heart. But she’d had good reasons . . . hadn’t she? He’d forgiven her. He’d had to, in order to move on. She needed to find herself, that was the latest jargon. And yet she’d returned when he had, indeed, moved on.
Her bangs were wet from the snow. Gently, he brushed them away from her eyes. She didn’t stop him, which was encouraging.
When he kissed her, everything changed. He knew it would.
His fiancé appeared in his mind, a chastisement, a devil on his shoulder.
But Margaret was his first love, his only love.
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