Free Loveable Christmas Angel: Book #3 - Romance and Heavenly Spirits! (Angels with Attitudes) by Mimi Barbour

that the moment had come, nervous streaks of fear pumped through his stomach and left him experiencing a reaction that he hated.
    Sensitivity unmanned him and he’d always hated how much he cared. Still reeling from the power of his emotions, he remembered as a young lad when he’d first shown his mother his secret hobby. How letdown he’d felt when he saw her struggle to show an interest, begrudging him the time he spent here dabbling rather than at the hotels. Dabbling!
    He stopped for a minute to catch his breath, and decide once and for all if he trusted Leilani to understand. Could he handle it if she didn’t get it…get him?
    Meanwhile, she stood with him at the entrance to the covered courtyard where he often lunched. A gasp made him study her rapt face. Then he looked to see the familiar setting through her eyes.
    Graced with a warm, oak-colored patio set, chairs to match covered with white and blue typical island materials, and many larger shade trees, the spacious area was indeed quite a feature. A multitude of poinsettias planted in fancy urns of various sizes embellished the gleaming white walls, as did the garlands that Mia insisted on using to decorate for the Christmas season.
    He supposed to one unfamiliar with the room, the area showed pleasantly, but being used to luxurious surroundings all his life, he’d become immune. After hearing her gasps of admiration, the villa-like setting presented him with a completely new perspective—an awakening. Kale swung his gaze in every direction, copying Leilani and knew the minute when she’d seen the window he’d worked so hard to make perfect.
    The pattern in the multi-colored pieces of stained glass was of a number of elves and fairies peeking out from under the fronds of island ferns. He’d designed the characters to be cheeky and mischievous, and they’d turned out exactly as he’d seen them in his imagination. The window was rich with vibrant tones of greens from dark to light and also bright reds, pinks, yellows, all constructed using intriguing types of glass. Not breathing, he waited—and waited.
    Her silence captured his attention. He finally gathered the courage to look down into her face and saw tears gathering in her eyes. She slid her fingers into his hand and whispered. “What genius made that window? It’s incredible!”
    Now, he couldn’t wait to drag her into the studio and show her more. There were so many he’d made over the years, all huge, all incredibly intricate, and all different. In his eyes, the gallery presented a wonderland. At the end of the room, a whole wall of windows, where the natural light made the room glow between the colored glass and bevels of crystals, produced a festival of prisms and had been his ultimate achievement. When she saw those, the tears began to fall.
    “I’m embarrassed by my lack of control, Kale. But beauty like this makes me weep every time.” Her slender body had turned away before he could stop her.
    The words pleased him to such a degree that he hesitated to touch and instead let his eyes eat her up. Such a tiny thing to hold so much emotion, and he knew, without any more doubts, that he needed her to belong to him…from this day forward…for better or for worse.
    He also knew she had enough on her plate right now, and it would require patience. If he became her strength through the troubled times, maybe she’d learn to love him back.

Chapter Fifteen
    Leilani looked around at all the people who had shown up for Aunt Mele’s celebration and realized that her aunt, unlike her mother, had made many friends over her lifetime.
    These individuals truly cared that they’d lost a companion and neighbour, and it was obvious when it came time for them to file past where Leilani sat with an empty chair next to her after the ceremony.
    She appreciated seeing Kale, who had come to sit in the very front as if he wanted to be near her and she liked that he hugged her as if she mattered. Most of all,