Mistaken by Pixie Unger

Author:Pixie Unger [Unger, Pixie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: E M Brown & Co
Published: 2020-06-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 17

That night after supper, I got the boys, all of the boys ready for bed. I tucked them into bed and told them the version of Noah’s Arc that I could remember. Well, a flood story anyway. I had heard a number of them over the years and they had all mashed together in my memory, so this one probably wasn’t biblically correct. The boys liked it anyway. There weren’t lights in the bedroom, so reading wouldn’t have been an option anyway. Next time, I would do my best attempt at remembering the details involved in the plot of Star Wars.

When I came back to the living room, Martin was decorating a Christmas tree and Harry was trying to fill five mens socks with random duplo bricks out of a big plastic tote labeled lego. I just nodded and went to help hand out ornaments. The orcs were all standing with their backs to the walls, clearly just trying to stay out of the way of the mad humans with their strange tree things.

There were so many things I started to say, then forced myself not to. Things about candy canes, about how it was too bad we couldn’t try to organize some sort of Christmas dinner. I didn’t ask about how the Kings used to celebrate before the invasion. I didn’t talk about how I always made a gingerbread house that was spicy enough you needed milk. Martin was humming Christmas carols under his breath. I focused on that instead.

By the time we were done, the cold was starting to set in. I hugged the guys and wished them a Merry Christmas and went to my room. Our room. Bear was right behind me. I brushed my teeth and washed my face before crawling into bed. Wrapping the covers around me, I realized just how much I had been using the boys for warmth. I shivered and waited for the bed to warm up.

It still wasn’t warm before Bear came out of the bathroom and headed to his bed. If I asked, he would let me take one of his blankets. Ever since my cold, Bear had been careful about making sure I was warm enough. I still wasn’t sure if he understood the difference between having a cold and merely being cold.

“Good night, Kari.”

“Good night, Bear. Thank you for letting us have Christmas.”

He grunted in acknowledgement. I tried to burrow more tightly into my bed. “Cold?”

“Um… yeah, but I will warm up.”

“Need warm?”

I snorted, “You are just trying to talk your way back into my bed.”

“Yes,” he agreed. “But I get blanket if need.”

“Last time you slept with me I kicked you,” I pointed out.

Bear seemed to consider that. “Yes. Not grab you again. You have nightmare, I wake you, then go.”

I rolled over so that I was facing him. “I think you lied to me,” I had to whisper my accusation. I wasn’t brave enough to say it out loud. “You said that if you hurt me, you would be punished.

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