Bright Haven: An Amberly Novella by Edith Scott

Author:Edith Scott [Scott, Edith]
Language: eng
Format: epub

The morning came early with Bacon’s nose in my face, his tail thumping on the dresser. He knew better than to lick me, but his whiskers tickled my cheek and his breathing woke me with a start. He smiled at me the way golden retrievers do, and his tail sped up. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump.

“Do you need to go out?” Mike said from behind me.

I groaned and pulled the blankets over my head. That was a rhetorical question. Bacon was a morning person. Mike was a morning person. I was not a morning person.

Mike unburied a portion of my face and leaned down to kiss me. He got a section of my temple next to my hairline. I smiled to myself inside the covers in spite of my grouchiness.

Then Mike climbed out of bed and took Bacon downstairs. I snugged into the bed, making the most of them both being gone. All the more reason to sleep in. Besides, it was cold outside. I heard Mike downstairs say, “Go on!” to Bacon, who probably didn’t want to go outside once he realized how cold it was.

I drifted off to sleep while listening to Mike go about the sounds of morning, including the whirr of coffee beans in the grinder. Mmm…coffee. Mike would bring me some, and until then I could sleep just a little longer…

I drifted off into a dream, floating on the clouds of the perfection of sleeping in on a day off. It wasn’t a weekend, but for some reason I still got to sleep in…

My eyes flew open. It was Christmas morning! Mike wouldn’t have gone through his stocking without me there, right?

I blinked and shook my head. No way would he do that. Did I have time for a shower? Should I take one? Should I leave my Christmas pajamas on? Why hadn’t I thought through the exact logistics of today?

I sat up, and just then Mike walked in with a tray of food and a mug of coffee for me. “Hey, you’re up!”

“As up as I can be first thing in the morning,” I said, watching Mike closely. He had a big smug Cheshire Cat smile on his face.

I wanted to ask him what he was up to, but maybe I was just projecting. “Did you already eat?” I said, forlornly looking at all my food and wondering if I was going to eat alone.

“Of course not,” Mike laughed. “I just have to make several trips.”

He arrived a few minutes later with another tray of food, and settled into bed with me. We ate in semi-awkward silence while my mind raced with possibilities for the day.

“Did you know it’s Christmas?” I said to him in a conversational tone, like we were strangers discussing the weather.

“Oh really?” Mike’s eyes crinkled with amusement. “I heard something about that,” he said, and took another bite of eggs. After he swallowed he said, “I guess I should have gotten you something.”

I laughed into my coffee, trying not to burn myself while also getting it inside my bloodstream as fast as possible.

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