Secret Billionaire Returns on Christmas novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: The Christmas Eve Service
By seven the sanctuary was full, and people stood three deep along the back wall.
I had never seen so many coats in one room.
The families from the doors sat together on the left, the boy in his broken jacket between his mother and the veteran in his cap.
The choir waited in the loft in burgundy robes, each with a candle.
Caleb and I took the fourth pew from the back, where nobody wanted to sit.
He wore the thrift-store coat and had shaved.
His left knee bounced against mine for the first ten minutes.
Frank sat alone in the deacons' pew at the front, in a pressed white shirt and a tie that did not suit him.
He had not looked back once.
Lacey sat on the aisle in the first row, in a red wool dress.
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