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I’ve had the biggest smile all day. Jasper invaded my dreams last night and I’m not scared to admit that I woke up with a very hot personal fireplace. Took a cold shower, which in the middle of winter in Colorado is not recommended, but still I’m thinking things I haven’t in a long time. Things that would make my sister blush. Heck, they make me blush.
The doorbell rings.
He’s early.
I motion toward the noise. “I gotta get that.”
“He’ll let himself in, eventually.”
I shake free from her hold. “And it’s freezing out there!”
Harmony folds her arms. “Concerned about his welfare, interesting. Very interesting.”
“I’m concerned with a lot of people’s welfare, including yours.”
“I’m well and I’m fair,” she says spinning, her hair splaying out around her.
“You’re something, all right.”
I open the door all I see is a tower of gifts. “Jasper? Are you behind there?”
A muffled, “Somewhere,” is all I hear.
I start pulling a few off to find his smiling face. “Hello there.”
“Hello. I know I’m early; I couldn’t wait to get here.”
“And I couldn’t wait for you to get here.”
We sneak a quick peck behind the remaining mountain of packages until I hear a familiar soft padding of feet behind us.
“Jasper?” Nyck’s voice breaks our bond.
“Hey, Nyck! Are you feeling better today?”
Nyck narrows his eyes in. “How did you know I was sick?”
“Oh…” Jasper sets the gifts down on the coffee table. “Your mom told me, of course.”
Nyck doesn’t say anything more because his eyes are on the stack of gifts. “Wow! Are all of those for—”
“Nyck! Manners, please,” I say quickly.
“Sorry. How are you, Mr. Jasper?”
Jasper walks to me with his hand behind his back and I’m curious. “I’m good. And yes, the majority are for you. There’s a couple for your mom and your aunt, too. Hope you like them, but I’d like you to open them on Christmas morning.”
Nyck’s shoulder’s fall, but he springs to life with a huge smile when Jasper holds out an expertly wrapped box.
“Except this one.”
Nyck grabs it, drops to his knees, and tears it open. “Yes!”
I look over his shoulder and my eyes pop at what I see.
A remote-controlled robot?
I move back to Jasper and lean in. “That had to have cost—”
