Son of Santa by Kate Sands

Author:Kate Sands
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2015-11-24T00:00:00+00:00

NOEL GROANED and rolled over in bed. For a brief moment he thought the buzzing was all in his head. When he realized it came from the intercom at his apartment door, he pulled his pillow over his face to try to block it out.

It didn’t stop.

“Noel!” Ruby called from the living room. He had a faint memory of her crashing on the couch the night before. “Noel, answer that, or I’m gonna kill you.” Somehow she still sounded sickly sweet.

He stumbled out of bed. He didn’t believe she’d kill him, but he better not take any chances.

It took a lot to get realm folk drunk on spirits brewed in the human world. Noel and Ruby made a good go of it the night before.

Realizing he was still dressed in his dark jeans and purple button-up from the evening out, he shrugged and didn’t bother changing into something less wrinkled. He put on a pair of slippers and stumbled from his room toward the intercom.

“Yeah?” he said into it. His voice was rough.

“Rise and shine, sugar plum!”

Noel banged his forehead against the wall. He pressed the button and said, “I hate you, Fannar.” Noel buzzed him in anyway.

Ruby sat up on the couch, blanket pooled around her. Her beautiful ringlet curls were a messy halo around her head. Noel ran a hand through his dark hair. It felt completely flat on one side and stuck straight out in the back. Fannar would have to deal with them looking less than perfect.

Ruby scowled, which was an unusual look for her, but she wasn’t great with hangovers. It cheered Noel to know she wasn’t perfect all the time.

“Didn’t you tell him we were going out last night?”

Over dinner, Noel had confessed to Ruby. He had to get it out, talk to someone, about the confusing conversation and feelings he had about Fannar. She’d been supportive and kind and promised not to get involved in his love life in any way. But she did take him out drinking and dancing to cheer him up.

It’d worked at the time. Now? Not so much.

“I did tell him,” Noel said, leaning against the wall. “He’s probably here this early to punish me for not inviting him.”

“I’d laugh except my head hurts too much.”

There was a knock at the door, and Noel answered it with a frown. “What are you doing here this early?”

Naturally, Fannar looked fresh faced and perfect. “It’s after eleven in the morning. I’m being polite waiting this long.”

“Oh.” Noel hadn’t realized how late in the day it was. Glancing out his living room window, he noticed the sky was overcast and blocking any sun or indication of what time in the day it could be. “Thanks.” He opened the door wider to let Fannar in.

Fannar walked past him, and Noel noticed he carried a satchel in one hand and what looked like a rolled parchment in the other.

“I would have brought coffee if I’d known you’d just woken. Good morning, Ruby!”

“I used to like you,” Ruby told Fannar.

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