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“You want to get changed?” Carly asks, gesturing to the screen behind the chair.
“Probably a good idea.” I go around the screen with Zelda and discover the red outfit trimmed with white fur resting on a chair. There’s also a big, padded belly and a long white beard and mustache.
Missie appears. She’s wearing a pair of green Christmas-tree earrings with flashing gold lights, and now she’s facing me, I can see that her T-shirt says, ‘Is it too late to be good?’ I lift my gaze to hers to see her smiling.
“I was looking at your T-shirt,” I point out.
“Yeah, yeah,” she says. “I’m just relieved I didn’t wear the one that has two baubles on the front and says, ‘Tits the Season.’”
That makes me laugh. “I’ve got one that says, ‘Stop staring at my package.’”
“Really?”
“No, Missie, God, you’re so gullible.”
She pushes me playfully. “You love to tease me.”
“It’s my superpower.”
She blushes. “You want help getting ready?”
“Like a five-year-old?”
“Oh, um, yeah, sorry, I slipped into teacher mode then.”
“Only I was going to say yeah, totally. There’s no way I’m getting into this on my own.”
She laughs and picks up the padded belly. “Let’s get this on first.”
“You think I need it?”
“Alex? You’reskinny as. You need a good woman to fatten you up.”
“Well I’d say I’d found one, but Finn told me you can’t cook.”
She giggles as she lifts the loop over my neck. “Unfortunately he’s right, I’m not great in the kitchen. Can you cook?”
“Yeah, I’m a diva.”
“Seriously, Alex.”
“I am! I’m like Gordon Ramsay without the swearing.”
“I’ve noticed that you don’t use bad language.” She holds up the trousers for me, and I step into them. She lifts them up and I tie them, then she helps me on with the long jacket.
“Juliette said she wonders whether you…” She looks up at me and her words trail off. “Nothing,” she mumbles.
“What?”
She shakes her head, laughing.
I can guess what Juliette said, and I watch Missie, amused, as she continues to dress me, keeping her gaze lowered. Somewhere along the way, our banter turned into flirting. I’ve been waiting a long time for it to happen, and the fact that she’s finally relaxed enough is the best Christmas present I could have asked for.
She reaches both arms around me to bring the belt around my waist, and glances up as she does so, meeting my eyes again. She doesn’t say anything, but I hold her gaze, and her lips curve up.
“Done,” she murmurs, moving back. “Now it’s just boots, hat, and beard.”
I pull on the boots, slide the elastic of the beard over my head, and let her adjust it so the curly beard tumbles down my front. Finally, she adds the hat, and then she stands back to admire the finished product. Zelda is sitting staring at me as if she doesn’t recognize me. I hold out a hand, and she sniffs it, then licks it as if to say, “Oh it is you.”
