The Santa Society by Kristine McCord

Author:Kristine McCord
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: holiday inspiration, Christmas love story, secret societies, Christmas stories, dog stories, holiday romance, Christmas romance, santa claus
Publisher: Blue Azalea Press LLC
Published: 2013-10-01T18:30:00+00:00

I awake to the smell of coffee brewing. I’m still on the sofa, but Reason has slipped out from beneath me. He spent the entire night holding me while I slept in his lap. This realization touches me deeply. It also enhances the growing feeling I’m his fall from grace, the fruit that darkens and spoils his life.

He appears beside me, holding a steaming coffee mug. It says “Santa Baby” on the side with a picture of a diapered cartoon baby wearing a huge, droopy Santa hat.

I stretch and gaze up at him. As responsible as I feel for complicating his life, he’s lifted mine. Seeing him here, in the morning with a fog of sleep still hazy in my eyes, reminds me of those first few moments of a sunrise.

“Good morning." He offers me the mug.

“Good morning.” I accept it and smile, but my eyes feel puffy and swollen from crying. I’m sure I’m not a sunrise.

He comes to sit on the floor beside me. I sit up and lean on my elbow to take a sip. He watches me with a peaceful look on his face, as though nothing out of the ordinary happened yesterday.

Finally, he says, “I know we have a lot to talk about, but I want to do something else first, if that’s okay.”

“Okay.”

“I want to put up a Christmas tree in here.”

This makes me pause. If we bring a tree in here, it might change everything. It will no longer be just the two of us sitting together, in the here and now. It will be us, a tree, and the memory of my mother in a hospital bed beside it. Already, I can see the lights just beyond her sleeping face.

“I don’t know. The tree reminds me of her.”

Sadness creeps into his face. “Was it a live tree?”

“No, not the night she died. She always put it over there, just behind the sofa by the window.”

“Then we can put it here, in front of the window by the chair. It'll be a different tree. We can just use lights, a fresh canvas.”

“Okay.” I look down at my clothes. We’re still dressed in our Mr. and Mrs. Claus costumes. “Let’s get changed first.”

I’m starting to think I’ll do anything for Reason MacCloud.

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