A Christmas Wonder by Summers Hayley

Author:Summers, Hayley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Ralphie Rossi wasn't, by any standard, the sharpest tool in the shed. He called himself the Calzone and worked at a pizza parlor in Brooklyn, New York. He was thinner than a broomstick, had shaggy black hair, and dressed like a mafia character from the 1970s. However, in Ralphie's mind, he was a strikingly handsome, successful twenty-five-year-old who was going to take the world by surprise! How...well, Ralphie was working on his first book. Yep. The Calzone was going to be the next great thing in the literary world someday.

The problem was Ralphie was sick of Brooklyn. He needed some real peace and quiet in order to work on his book. Ralphie considered moving to Tybee Island where a friend of his uncle lived...but he wasn't much for the beach scene. Ralphie liked the snow and cold. Yo, which was the way of the Calzone. Too much heat ruined a good pizza.

So on one fateful, snowy morning, Ralphie called Candy Baker and inquired about an ad he had seen online. People were needed to work on something called the Christmas Toy Island. The name was a little lame, but Ralphie didn't care. “So, I'm calling about the job I saw on the big screen,” Ralphie told Candy as he plopped down onto a red and white chair in the quiet pizza parlor. “All the ad said was that people were needed to work on some island. Ayo, what's the deal? I'm available if you play your cards right.”

Candy was barely awake, and she was still wearing her warm, pink bathrobe. She had been up late. Sandy's flight had landed in Buffalo, and from there she took a bus to Pine Snow. The young woman was now asleep in the guest room in Candy's little cottage home. Boy, what a night Candy had. Sandy had arrived so wired up on coffee that Candy was certain the girl was going to electrocute someone. She wasn't in the mood to deal with a smart-mouth guy from Brooklyn who sounded like he belonged in a mafia movie. “What's your name?”

“Hey, call me the Calzone,” Ralphie answered. “I'm sitting here in a pizza parlor in Brooklyn. The joint ain't open yet, and it wouldn’t matter if the joint was open. I need a change of scenery. I've got a book to write. The Calzone is going to be the next great author. I'm writing about a guy who has to go back in time to redeem himself and save a pretty face. Brilliant? Ayo, I'm too modest to say.”

Candy nearly banged her head against the kitchen table in her kitchen. “Well, Mr. Calzone—”

“Just call me the Calzone!”

Oh, the characters were crawling out of the pages, and that much was for certain. First, Peppermint had pretended to be a crazed killer, and then a Valley Girl from California was nearly killed...and now some wannabe mafia kid from Brooklyn was on the line. “I need a few people to work in a toy factory making toys. Can you do that?”

“Ayo, I'm good with the kiddos.

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