The Naughty List by Caisey Quinn

Author:Caisey Quinn [Quinn, Caisey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-09T18:30:00+00:00

12

HOLLIS

BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE

Something is happening to Jonah.

I have no clue where he’s going in his mind while I’m busy decorating, but it’s somewhere dark.

His brow is furrowed, his hazel eyes are now flat black and he hasn’t commented once on my off-key singing of Baby It’s Cold Outside.

Lady Gaga I am not.

I desperately want to bring him back to the here and now. A silly and impulse comes over me and I act on it.

After swiping my finger through a large green blob that was almost a tree on the lawn of my latest house, I reach toward his handsome, distracted face.

“Um, Jonah? You got a little something right…” I smear the glob all across his chiseled cheekbone.

“What the hell, Hollis?” He growls at me, wiping the green goo off his cheek. But he only makes it worse.

I can’t help it. I laugh, nearly doubling over at the sight of him.

“Why so serious,” I say in my best Joker voice, adding a red streak to his mouth.

“You’re dead,” he says evenly, reaching for the giant white bag of royal icing. “Good luck getting this edible glue out of your hair.”

“No, Jonah,” I squeal, holding my hands up in surrender. “For real. That icing is not the same as the colored stuff. Please don’t—”

Too late.

He squishes a huge blob onto my head.

But at least his eyes are lighter now. And he’s almost sort of smiling.

I toss a handful of red hots at him.

One sticks to the icing on his face.

Overcome with a fit of giggles, I grab the tray and run around to the opposite end of the counter.

“You think you’re funny?”

I nod adamantly. “If only your former UFC opponents could see you now.”

He grabs the bowl of gum drops. “Let’s see how funny you are, you miniature elf, you.” He starts to run to the right so I do too, until we’re once again at opposite ends of the counter.

“Miniature elf? Them’s fightin’ words,” I declare, armed with a handful of sugar sprinkles. “These are like edible glitter. You’ll still be finding them everywhere months from now.”

Unfazed by my threat, he lunges at me.

Startled, I toss the sprinkles at his face.

“Oh, damn. My eyes,” he cries out.

I freeze where I stand. It’s just like Ma said when we were kids, It’s all fun and games til someone loses an eye.

My stomach tightens. I’ve blinded Jonah X with sugar sprinkles. Only me.

“Oh God, Jonah. I’m so sorry. Get to the sink, we’ll flush your eyes out with the spray-thingy.”

I run to him, like the gullible idiot that I am.

Jonah wraps an arm around me and empties the gumdrop bowl directly onto my head with the other.

Most of them stick to the icing glob in my hair.

His eyes are perfectly fine.

I shake my head. “I can’t believe I fell for that. My brothers would be so disappointed. I should know better.”

Jonah laughs wickedly. I retrieve a gumdrop from the gooey strands on my shoulder and throw it at his chest.

“Wait, wait. If you’re going to get hired on at the WDA, you need a professional headshot.

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