Santa's Little Thief by Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

Author:Carolyn Ridder Aspenson [Ridder Aspenson, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severn River Publishing

I slept like the dead, and when I said that to myself, I felt kind of bad, thinking about that elf and his demise. Dylan was up and gone before I woke up. He must have meant it when he said he had an early morning.

I dragged myself out of bed, wondering if the last twenty-four hours actually happened, of if I’d dreamed it. I checked the date on my phone just to be sure. It had to have happened, my phone couldn’t lie.

I met Bonnie, Henrietta, and Belle at Millie’s Café. Millie served us each cups of piping hot coffee with a splash of peppermint mocha syrup. It hit the spot on the cold winter morning.

As we filled the women in on our adventure—minus the magical mouse since I’d figured it hadn’t gone over well with Dylan–my sheriff husband and Belle’s deputy boyfriend walked into the café.

“Ladies, can we talk to you outside?”

Bonnie stood. “Oh, I got to see me this. Nothing like watching a man in uniform handcuff a woman.”

Millie shook her head. “I’m going to have to temporarily ban her from the café if she keeps this kind of kinky talk up.”

“Which ladies?” Henrietta said.

“Belle and my wife, ma’am,” Dylan replied.

Belle and I eyed each other and cautiously walked out.

“We don’t know what you two did, but the gifts were in the rec center of the basement,” Dylan said, his eyes staring at me with a guarded amusement.

“I told you so.”

Matthew set his eyes on his girlfriend. “Care to tell me about this?”

“Oh heck no. One of us needs to stay out of the nut house.”

I laughed. “You’re the one scared of a magical mouse.”

Belle turned back toward the café entrance. “He was a rodent. Who cares if he’s magical. A rodent is a rodent.”

“You about killed him. You should feel bad about that.”

“He jumped on my lap. I reacted. I told you that.” She opened the door, and we walked inside, completely forgetting about the two men we’d left out there.

I heard Dylan laugh.

“What the heck are they talking about?” Matthew asked.

“I’m not sure, but how about we just consider this a Christmas miracle, and let it lie?”

The End

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