Second Chance Christmas

By A.D. Ellis

Josh and Mark were best friends as children and fell in love as teens. Thanks to a move, they lost touch. They find each other again years later and attempt a long-distance relationship. But both want more than texts and video chats. Will they get a second chance for Christmas?
This is a free title as part of the Rainbow Advent Calendar 2022.

• Language: English
• Publisher: A.D. Ellis
• Release date: Dec 6, 2022

A.D. Ellis

Escape into addictive, sexy, emotional romance.A.D. Ellis is an Indiana girl, born and raised. She spends much of her time in central Indiana as an instructional coach/teacher in the inner city of Indianapolis, being a mom to two amazing teens, and wondering how she and her husband of nearly two decades haven't driven each other insane yet. A lot of her time is also devoted to phone call avoidance and her hatred of cooking.She loves chocolate, wine, pizza, and naps along with reading and writing romance. These loves don’t leave much time for housework, much to the chagrin of her husband. Who would pick cleaning the house over a nap or a good book? She uses any extra time to increase her fluency in sarcasm.A.D. uses she/they pronouns and identifies as "not straight" while still exploring labels. Queer, yes. Bisexual or pansexual, probably. Gray ace or demisexual, likely. Until something feels just right, they'll skip the exact labels.FREE books-- sign up at bit.ly/ADEllisNews for a FREE male/female romance.Sign up at http://www.subscribepage.com/ADEllisNewsMMRomance for a FREE male/male romance book.

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Second Chance Christmas

Second Chance Christmas

A.D. ELLIS

A.D. Ellis Publishing

Contents

A Note from A.D. Ellis

1. Joshua David Hall

2. Mark Charles Anderson

3. Josh

4. Mark

5. Josh

Epilogue

Also by A.D. Ellis

About the Author

A Note from A.D. Ellis

When I had the chance to write a fun short for the Rainbow Advent Calendar event, I jumped at it! This short story was a lot of fun to write and I’ve worked very hard to keep it a complete secret from ALL of my readers! Not even my alpha or beta readers got to read this one so it’s a true surprise gift for everyone!

Happy holidays and HAPPY READING!

Chapter 1

Joshua David Hall

Me: The date last night may have been the worst one yet.

Mark: Damn. Sorry. So, no repeat?

Me: Definitely not. He was boring and smug. Nights like that make me even more sure things would be so much better if my best friend hadn’t moved overseas all those years ago. We could have stayed together and everything would be perfect.

Mark and I had been best friends in elementary school. In high school, we fell in love and things were good.

So damn good.

Then Mark’s dad, a career military man, got transferred overseas and took his family with him.

I lost the love of my life and my best friend in the span of a month.

And I still wasn’t over it—over him—all these years later. Even at forty-three,