Christmas Hero: Unwrapping the Dragon by Miranda Bailey

Author:Miranda Bailey [Bailey, Miranda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sparrow Publishing
Published: 2019-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

I awoke in the night, thirsty, a little sore, and very hungry. I opened my eyes, the odd flickering through my eyelids confusing me until I saw what Gareth had been doing while I slept.

He’d brought in a real Christmas tree and decorated it with baubles, lights, and tinsel. A fairy sat atop the tree, her wings a gaudy purple, her features schooled in a sultry pose. Beneath the tree there were presents, wrapped in festive paper and to the left of the tree sat a table with a dinner prepared and plated.

“I thought you’d be awake soon. Merry Christmas, Elena.” I turned to find him sitting up against the headboard beside me, his eyes delighted with my bright smile, clad in one of the hotel robes.

“You did all of this for me?” I sat up, pushing the hair out of my eyes as I held the sheet over my chest.

“I thought you needed a proper Christmas. From the things you didn’t say, I doubted you’d had one in a while. I called my parents to tell them I’d be home tomorrow, and your flight has definitely been canceled. You won’t be going anywhere for at least a week so I thought I’d stay here with you. If that’s alright? Or I can always take you to my house here if you’d rather?”

“What? Oh my God, no, I can’t do that to you. Gareth! This is all amazing, you are just so…” I had to wait until the tears stopped stinging my eyes, and his rush of words made a little bit of sense. “Gareth, you are truly a special guy aren’t you?”

“I’ve always thought so, but the ladies never seemed to notice.” He had on a rather smug look but that soon collapsed into a roar of laughter. “No, I’m just a decent guy, sweetheart, that’s all. Now come on, you need feeding because if I’m staying, you’re going to need it.”

He took my hand and pulled me from the bed. His face was a picture of pure joy as he brought me over to the table with me wrapped only in the sheet from the bed.

“I wasn’t sure what you liked, or if you were a vegetarian, so I told them to send up everything.”

I looked at him incredulously! It must have cost a fortune!

“Don’t worry, the airline is covering it.” He looked away for a second, and then pulled my seat out for me. “There’s uh, a couple of things we should talk about, I think, Elena.”

I went still, wondering if he’d already found out about my job. It was the age of social media; it wasn’t totally impossible. I took a deep breath and let it out slowly before I looked up at him.

“There is?”

“Yes, I have a few, well, not secrets.” He waved his hand a little in that way you do when you’re trying to define something that might be a little iffy.

“Okay. I guess we both do. Though, I don’t think they’re secrets so much as we haven’t gotten to that part yet.

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