Into Santa_A Secret Billionaire Christmas Romance by Becca Barnes

Author:Becca Barnes [Barnes, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BB Press
Published: 2018-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

Nine

“Well, I’m glad one of us slept well,” I said as Nate hefted my bag into his truck bed. We were getting a late start. We’d eaten a slow, leisurely breakfast then gone on another walk down the beach. No canoodling as we’d passed a steady flow of beachcombers.

Annie and Evan had taken off super early. Annie wasn’t feeling well, and the only thing that sounded appetizing to her were blueberry lime jam-filled cream puffs from Revolution Doughnuts, our favorite breakfast spot in Decatur. A fact that she’d shared with me by text at five a.m.

I let out a monster yawn.

“Really?” Nate waggled his eyebrows. “I would have preferred that neither of us slept at all.”

“Don’t rub it in.” I planted a peck on his lips, but he swooped his arms around me to kiss me for real.

Mmm. For real.

That was the best way to describe my feelings for him. Just really...real. Raw and new. I hadn’t been this gobsmacked giddy over a guy in, well, ever.

He helped me up into the cab and leaned across me to secure my seatbelt.

“Safety first,” he murmured as his hand grazed my hip.

“We’re not going to make it all the way home before I jump you, are we?” I laughed.

“I’m not sure I’m going to make it out of this parking lot.” He clicked the buckle and unapologetically groped my ass in the process. To be fair, I may have been doing my own share of groping in return.

“That was a very nice thing you did last night,” he said once he slid into the driver’s seat.

“If my memory serves, we didn’t get to that part,” I said.

He chuckled.

“No, I meant taking the hit for Annie and Evan. Letting Millicent sleep in your room.” He rested his hand along the bottom of the steering wheel as we headed down the beach frontage road. “But do you really think she would have followed through with her threat to take back her gift?”

“Oh, that. Yeah. The one thing I’ll say about Aunt Millicent, she’s a woman who sticks to her guns. She once wrote a niece out of her will for smoking a cigar at a bachelorette party. I was surprised she didn’t throw the phrase ‘loose morals’ or ‘lady of the night’ at me.”

Nate tossed his head back laughing.

“And that would make me…?”

“Oh, no. Different set of standards. Boys will be boys and all that jazz.” I rolled my eyes.

“That sucks,” he said.

“I’m just glad she’s not my great aunt. I have my own set of family craziness to keep me busy.”

“Holiday drama?” he asked. “Sorry. I couldn’t help but overhear part of your phone call yesterday.”

“Yeah. My sister is taking off with my brother-in-law’s family to go skiing, and my parents had already planned this big anniversary cruise ages ago. So...merry Christmas to me, I guess.”

“Why don’t you come do Christmas with me?” He said the words nonchalantly, but the air in the truck cab went completely quiet after he did.

“Like...family stuff?” I said.

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