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His hips swayed as he sang slowly, “Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!”
I joined in, bumping my hips against his as we sang.
“Not bad,” I said after we finished.
“I have many skills. You ain’t seen nothing yet.”
I chuckled and opened the door for him. “Shall we?”
“Let’s!”
I may not necessarily want to spend time around a ton of people, but I was hungry.
The roads were slick, but going slow did the trick. We were able to park in the driveway at his house. From the looks of my own house, my family was sleeping in today.
“I thought we were cooking?” Christopher said as we stepped inside a very busy kitchen.
“We thought maybe the snow would—” his mother began, only to be cut off by Christopher’s aunt, who was holding one of the triplets, I wasn’t even sure which one.
“Your mama thought you two would be getting it on or recovering between sessions of getting it on.” His aunt was something—and proper wasn’t it.
My poor mate’s face was burning red. Unlike shifters, humans tended to be a lot more shy about things like this. If we had been at my house, I’d have been showing off my mating mark like a boss. Christopher’s family home… not so much. It simply wasn’t their way.
That and humans didn’t tend to leave actual wounds on each other’s necks to signify their lifetime commitment to each other. They settled for rings. If Christopher wanted one of those I would gladly get that for him. We could even do the whole marriage thing.
“We said we were cooking and that was our plan.” Christopher watched his mother’s face carefully. “But if you want to do it, we can go out and play in the snow.”
He’d been kidding. I could hear it in his voice and see it in the smile upon his face. I doubted anyone in there would miss it. Still, his aunt jumped at the chance, “Excellent. The triplets were asking for someone to take them out.”
And that was how we ended up with three tiny humans, bundled in enough winter gear for an entire neighborhood, waddling their way outside. Looking at them, this entire notion was completely ridiculous. Heck, they nearly tumbled over with each step. But the giggles coming from them… this wasn’t ridiculous, it was everything.
“Want to make a snowman?” Christopher was asking me, more than the girls. They were too little to do more than cheer us on and fill the backyard with joy. But really, wasn’t that enough?
“A big one.” I spread my arms out wide and the laughter grew, and I couldn’t help but think that one day, this could be us with our own children.
If last night had amounted to a pup between the two of us, then I would be ecstatic. I was also more than happy to wait as well. Christopher and I were together now, and nothing was ripping us apart.
Christopher knelt in the snow, made a ball, and started pushing it carefully. It was good packing snow, and within a few minutes two of the kiddos were pushing the foot tall ball of snow along with him.
I looked down at the one next to me. She wore a blue snowsuit, while the other two were in purple and pink. I supposed that was one way to tell them apart. Next step would be to put their names on them.
“You want to help me make one?”
“Ya.” She grinned and then scooped up a bit of snow and flung it at me. The unpacked powder blew away in the wind. “Pretty!”
“It is pretty. But no snow ball fights just yet, okay? We’ll work on making another piece of the snowman.”
“Olaf?”
“Sure, we can name him Olaf.”
In the end we were able to roll two very large balls. It took my wolf strength to pick up the huge boulder and place it on top of the slightly bigger one.
The snowman stood six feet tall.
“We need a head,” I said.
“Got you covered,” Christopher said. And he picked up a smaller ball that one of the triplets had been standing in front of. “I think this should work. But how do we get it up there?”
