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Christmas Every Day
by
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To Mary Ann Jolqnston, a one of a kind lady

Chapter 1

What Sara Santangelo liked about life was that if you looked hard
enough, there were usually choices. She had one now as she deplaned at
John Wayne Airport. She could either drive up to Eagle Rock, a
development within Newport

Beach, and see her father, or she could go to meet the man who was
going to be her employer during her temporary stay in Southern
California. It never even occurred to Sara that the man might not give
her the position. To her it was a foregone conclusion.

As was her choice. She'd face her father later.

Depositing her suitcases in the car she had just rented, Sara decided
to drive to Sinclair's, the restaurant co-owned by her new
cousin-in-law, Julia.

By nature Sara was not a coward. But it was just that, almost fifteen
years after her parents' breakup, there was still too much emotional
baggage for her to unpack. This close to seeing her father for the
first time in over a decade, and suddenly the tips of her fingers felt
icy and the pit of her stomach had contracted into a tight, angry
knot.

Perhaps after she managed to get things in gear at Sinclair 's, Sara
reasoned, she'd feel more like facing the man who had broken her heart
and walked away from her and her mother when they had needed him
most.

After all this time, it still hurt.

Raymond Santangelo hadn't just divorced his wife, he had divoqrced his
daughter, as well. There had been a handful of visits in the first
year and perhaps a dozen cards and notes. And then nothing. A stark,
empty nothing.

It was hard for Sara to feel charitable toward him after that.

With the address memorized, Sara easily found her way to Sinclair's.
Pacific Coast Highway's serpentine route hadn't changed all that much
in the past fourteen years, and she was blessed with a photographic
memory that absorbed everything around her, cataloging it all away for