Shining Star

By JK Honeycutt

Colin's life is torn apart when he loses his leg. Living back home on his parent's farm, he can't get the girl he left behind out of his mind. She comes to visit him for the Christmas holidays, offering him a priceless gift.
Warning: Explicit sex

• Language: English
• Publisher: JK Honeycutt
• Release date: May 9, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458063687

JK Honeycutt

JK Honeycutt is a country girl from the midwest. She has been writing erotic romance for over ten years, publishing numerous stories on the literotica website. Several of her stories won cash prizes there. Now she is rewriting all her stories and self-publishing them as e-books.

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Shining Star

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Shining Star

Copyright © 2011 by JK Honeycutt

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Staring at the top of the tree, Colin tried to think of a way to reach it. In his large family everyone had always had one certain task when it came to decorating the Christmas tree, his job always being to add the star to the top of the tree.

This would be the first time since he had been given the job as a child, that he would not be able to do it. Seeing his mother standing in the kitchen doorway nervously rubbing her hands together, he sighed, telling himself,

You can do this.

She quickly wiped a tear from the corner of her eye before he turned to look at her. Where she had once seen all the compassion in the world in his eyes, she now saw anger and frustration. More than anything else at that moment, she wanted to take her 23-year-old son’s place. She would have gladly given her life so he could have his leg back.

Seeing him sitting in his wheel chair, wanting to stand up and put that star on top of the tree nearly broke her heart. It had only been ten months since the doctors had amputated the leg in order to save his life.

Colin had been placed in a drug-induced coma after a skiing accident, for three months when the hospital gave them the bad news that he had cancer. His parents had been forced to make a life or death decision for him.

Sometimes his mother wondered if he resented them for choosing to have his leg removed. When the swelling in his brain had gone down enough for the ventilator to be removed, he had woken up within a few days. She remembered that horrible day like it had been yesterday when he had been told about his leg.

Throwing his tray of food at the wall, he had missed the nurse's head by inches. Security had been called to tie him to the bed so he could be sedated. Over the following couple weeks, the physical therapist had talked to him about getting a prosthetic device but his stubborn pride pushed away all offers of help. So, four months after his skiing accident, he got sent home to live on his family's farm in South Carolina.

Colin startled his mother by saying, Go get the step ladder.

A horrified expression froze on her face as she envisioned him attempting to climb it, only to fall and break his remaining leg. When she made no move to fulfill his request, he threw the Christmas star back into the box of decorations and rolled his chair out of the room. She jumped when he slammed his bedroom door, causing all of the wall hangings to rattle.

Refusing to come out of his room for supper that evening, he instead chose to lie in bed pouting. The loud whispers of his parents were barely muffled by the walls. In a way, he did feel bad for upsetting his mom but those feelings were easily buried under envy for his siblings who were off living on their own, raising families and working great jobs.

It had always been hard for Colin to be the youngest of seven children. He had arrived late in his parent's life, delivered on his mother's 50th birthday. When he turned 18, he had been more than ready to go out and see the world, joining the military right after high school graduation. He had been to at least a dozen different countries, living a life many people only dream of.

The previous year, he had been released from the army, deciding he didn’t want to pursue a military career, opting to enroll in a small college in Colorado. It happened to be a few miles from a major ski resort, which gave him a place to go on weekends, but first he had to learn to ski. He