Mall I Want for Christmas is You by Sarah Robinson

Author:Sarah Robinson [Robinson, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Books by Sarah Robinson

Chapter Six

Chrissy

With only a week left until Christmas, anxiety was starting to set in for Chrissy. She still had not gotten a gift for Rudy, though she'd been saving up for a while for it. He'd specifically requested a Lego set that was based on the White House in Washington, D.C. The kid was obsessed with building, houses…anything architecture related.

The problem was, Legos are absolutely not cheap.

She had gone to grab it at the toy store a few weeks ago thinking it might be twenty or thirty bucks, but had been shocked to see a hundred-dollar price tag instead. It had taken a bit of scraping but she had enough for it now and planned to get it during her lunch break if they weren't sold out.

"What temperature is the oven supposed to be?" her co-worker, Holly, asked her, despite the fact that she'd worked here long enough to know simple information like that by now.

She turned the dial on the oven to the correct temperature for her. "There you go. I'm going to take my lunch break."

"Now?" Holly's expression looked panicked. "But, what about the customers?"

Chrissy frowned and looked at her watch. "It's almost three o'clock. The lunch rush is over, and I'm starving. You can handle it for thirty minutes."

"Okay, but can you hurry back?" Holly replied, her fingers fidgeting with the hem of her apron. "I need to leave early today."

"What? Why?" Chrissy asked.

Holly looked away. "There's this party tonight, and I have to get ready."

Christ. She took a deep breath and decided it was better to just not respond at all. Instead, she pulled off her apron, washed her hands, and grabbed her wallet to head over to the toy store which was on the exact opposite side of the mall.

As she made her way through the crowds of holiday shoppers, she paused momentarily to watch the line winding around Santa's Village. If she pushed up on her tiptoes, she could see the front of the line where an irritable-looking elf was pushing a child toward Dash. The kid hopped up on his lap and she could see Dash smiling and laughing as they chatted for a few and then posed for a picture.

It had been over two weeks now that Dash had been driving her to and from work—most of the time, just them. On weekends when Rudy wasn't in school, he joined them. Admittedly, she'd really begun to enjoy their time together. They talked about everything from the weather to their most personal memories and dreams. It was the first time in a while that she felt she truly had not only a friend, but…the potential for something more.

Not that she could cross that line.

As much as she liked Dash and as much as her skin heated anytime he was near, he wasn't a permanent part of her life. He only had one more week as a mall Santa, and then he was off to California for several weeks to work on his app.

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