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“I’ll go wherever you go.”
“I can’t make you leave. You have your entire life here. You’re building a cabin.”
“But it will be empty without you in it, sweet girl. I don’t want to live here unless it’s with you.”
I don’t want tolivewithout you. I’d be a shell. A walking corpse. I’d be nothing if Eva left Whispering Winds after Christmas and never returned.
She swallows as her eyes search my face, looking for something I’m not sure she’s going to find.
“I need to think about this,” she says after what feels like an eternity.
I stroke her face with my fingertips. “Take all the time you need.”
I kiss her forehead, my lips sizzling with electricity the moment they touch her skin. She grabs hold of me, hugging me tightly as snow falls all around us.
We stand like that for what feels like hours until we finally break free. Eva smiles up at me and it warms me up again.
“I have an idea.”
“Yeah?”
“And it involves a little mistletoe. Come on! Let’s go.”
Before I have the chance to respond, she’s off to the races, running around with the mistletoe attached to a stick that Archie gave us earlier. I’m a little annoyed that she’s not using it on us. Instead, she’s running around looking for couples, trying to, in her words, spread a little Christmas cheer.
If she let me control the mistletoe, cheer isn’t the only thing I’d be spreading.
“There’s another couple!” she squeals. “Awww… They have a baby.”
She rushes over to them with me in tow and screams Merry Christmas.
It’s Wolfe. I frown a little because I’m surprised to see him out. He lives about as far up on the mountain as you can get. He needs to because he’s the area’s fire watchman.
Before I have the chance to even say anything, Eva rushes off to the next couple. This wasn’t how I thought I’d spend Christmas, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
* * *
“I’m exhausted,”Eva says as soon as we walk through the door to the cabin. “But that was the most fun I’ve had in a long time.”
Eva looks back at me, and I realize the meaning of stunning. I can’t move. I can hardly breathe as my girl takes me in, radiant with windswept hair and frost-kissed cheeks. Fuck, she’s gorgeous.
It takes me a few moments but I recover, sealing the frigid air behind the door.“Spreading Christmas cheer is serious business.”
My heart’s racing—absolutely slamming against my chest as I watch her remove layer after layer. Leaving one or two for me to peel off later.
We dropped by the cabin earlier for a hot minute to feed Dasher. And when Eva went out with him, I set up my own little surprise for her.
For us.
I’d picked up a few things at the Cherry Ridge Farm gift shop. Spread them out on the bed. Left one hanging above it.
She glances up at me as she unlaces her boots. “Glad you’re finally coming around to it.”
I kneel to undo my laces as Dasher hops off the couch and runs over to greet us. Eva angles herself to pick him up but he dodges her, jumping all over me instead as he licks my face.
“Wow. Never thought I’d be replaced that easily.”
I reach into my coat, pulling out a treat I’d picked up earlier for him. He snatches the bone off of the ground as soon as I set it down and scampers off as best he can, given it’s about half his size.
