Puppy Love Christmas Kiss: Puppy Love, #14

By C. Coal

Each Wednesday morning they take the bus--the lonely graduate student, the Marine trying to start a new life in the corporate world, the elderly woman on her way to the senior center, and the exhausted single mother and her daughter--but they never interact. Not until the day tragedy strikes and brings these five strangers together.

This story is part of the Puppy Love series of short stories about puppies bringing two people together to find their happily ever after.

• Language: English
• Publisher: C. Coal
• Release date: Apr 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386781912

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Puppy Love Christmas Kiss

ALSO BY C. COAL

Puppy Love 1-13

Puppy Love Holiday Collection

Puppy Love Valentine*

Puppy Love Rescue

Puppy Love Chance Meeting

Puppy Love Surprise Adoption

Puppy Love Winter Storm

Puppy Love Second Chance

Puppy Love Cupid's Rescue

Puppy Love Spring Flood

Puppy Love Blind Date

Puppy Love Lost Puppy

Puppy Love Holiday Surprise*

Puppy Love On the Road

Puppy Love Homecoming

Puppy Love Christmas Kiss*

Puppy Love Thanksgiving

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* - Holiday-Themed

PUPPY LOVE CHRISTMAS KISS

Danielle ruffled Sparky’s head on the way out the door. Be a good boy. I’ll be home for lunch.

She stopped on the front porch of her row house, wrapping her scarf tighter against the chill, missing the Southern California sun, as she looked towards the bus stop at the end of the block. Good. She still had time.

All the regulars she saw every Wednesday morning were waiting in small little huddles around the bus sign. The mother and her daughter—the mother tired and cranky every day, the daughter silent and dreamy, twirling in little circles as she stared at the gray sky. The good-looking guy in the business suit who always had his headphones on and his nose buried in his tablet. Mildred from next door who was always trying to get Danielle to sit down next to the guy in the suit and making comments about how in her day she would’ve been all over a man who looked like that.

(Never actually in front of him, thankfully…That would be mortifying.)

She walked down the steps, carefully navigating the small patches of ice and thinking about everything she had to do today. First was her grad seminar, which was likely to make her want to scream from boredom, and then she had to