A Not So Casual Christmas: a sexy holiday short story by Jamie K. Schmidt

Author:Jamie K. Schmidt [K. Schmidt, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Tessa left the party with Ben, leaving her coat at Wilson’s. She wanted to get out of there before anyone realized that Ben wasn’t working for Vedasto Santos.

“So, is it drugs?” she asked, hesitantly. They were in his rented Crown Vic driving to Starrett’s office building. She had twenty-four hour access because of the implementation so getting in shouldn’t be an issue. What Ben was expecting to find, though, had her worried.

“I really can’t say right now,” he said. “It will all eventually come out. And when it does I’ll answer all your questions.”

Nodding, Tessa bit her lip and wrapped her arms around herself. The Christmas sweater was stitched for laughs and not for warmth.

“Cold?” Ben turned up the heat in the car and reached around into the backseat to throw her a sweater.

She put it on gratefully. It swamped her like his clothes always did and better yet, it smelled just like him. She closed her eyes and finally, it felt like Christmas. He was home to her and he always would be. Tessa wondered if he felt the same or if it was just great sex every time they got together.

“What exactly are you looking for?” she asked. “Why do you need me?”

“I want to take a look at the new structure you’re putting in for Santos.”

“Don’t take this the wrong way, but would you even know what you were looking at?” Computers had never been his strong point. Ben wasn’t dumb by any stretch of the imagination, but her grandmother was more computer savvy than he was.

“I don’t need to. I just need your access into the system.”

Tessa made a frustrated noise in her throat. “I don’t like it, Ben. I trust you. I don’t trust who you’re going to give my access to.”

“Just keep trusting me, pretty girl. Have I ever given you reason not to?”

“Not in the past,” she said. “But a lot can happen in five years.”

“I haven’t changed,” he said. “Nothing important has changed in my life. Not my feelings for you. Not my commitment to you and not who I am. I just have a different employer.”

“Yeah, well your employer has a bad reputation.”

“You watch too many movies,” he chided. “It’s going to be all right.” He laid his big hand on her knee and she swayed into him to lean her head on his shoulder. It was like old times.

“That’s easy for you to say. You’re still going to have a job when all this goes down.” Tessa laid out a shaky sigh. “I won’t have enough money to pay for next month’s mortgage if Starrett goes tits up. I’ll be heading back to New Hampshire with nothing to show for it, but a really expensive coffee maker and some garment district finds.”

“Maybe you don’t have to go back home.”

Tessa snorted. “I don’t have anywhere else to go.”

“Virginia is nice this time of year.” He looked at her out of the corner of his eye.

Breathing in the scent of him, warm male, spicy and seductive and all Ben, she rubbed her cheek on his shoulder.

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