Christmas at the Borrow a Bookshop by Kiley Dunbar

Author:Kiley Dunbar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hera
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

* * *

As the fire grew low and Alex shifted in the spot on the hearthrug where they’d both collapsed into a sleepy heap, Magnús lifted his eyelids drowsily.

‘Are you cold? We can move upstairs,’ he said.

‘Not cold,’ she murmured. ‘Happy.’

‘Mmm.’ Magnús held her close, his hand across her stomach. ‘Alex Robinson?’

‘Hmm?’ Her eyes were closed again.

‘I like you.’

‘Mmm,’ she smiled, absorbing the words.

‘I like everything about you,’ he said again, softly kissing her shoulder.

Alex’s sleepy, dopamine-soaked brain mulled this over and her smile spread. He liked her. Not love, thank goodness. Liking everything about her somehow sounded much, much better than love. A sore spot at the back of her brain wanted to know whether she had been much liked before now, but she was too relaxed to follow the thought.

‘I like you liking me,’ she said in a whisper, squeezing her shoulders closer to Magnús’s chest. He brought his legs up to cradle hers all the more.

‘OK then,’ he murmured, low and dozy.

‘And you are also nice,’ she said in a robotic voice, making him laugh.

‘I don’t talk like that,’ he protested.

‘I like how you talk. I like everything about you too.’

She kissed his wrist and tucked his hand into the spot below her chin, holding him tight before they feel asleep once more.

Magnús, thinking himself a changed man, smiled in his sleep, knowing that tomorrow they would lazily eat breakfast and light the fire once more, turn the sign on the door, and open their shop and café again, ready to welcome last-minute gift shoppers braving the weather.

It would be another perfectly happy day, he told himself, and not one brooding, dark synapse in his sleepy brain fired a warning, like it would have done on any other night of his life, to remind him that nothing good ever came this easily to tormented, striving Magnús Sturluson.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.