The clause in my Santa contract says nothing about surviving my ex.
Holly steps onto my sleigh in red velvet and white fur, and suddenly I'm drowning in vanilla perfume and memories. Thirteen months ago, I gave her an ultimatum—me or her sister's chaos—and she chose the five-year-old niece who needed her.
Now we're stuck playing Mr. and Mrs. Claus for four hours a day, her hip pressed against mine on that damned sleigh. Every "ho ho ho" is torture when all I want is to drag her into the gingerbread house and show her exactly what she's been missing.
She's barely keeping her head above water—raising her niece alone, dodging overdue bills, fighting exhaustion with a smile that still destroys me.
But watching her with Ivy, seeing her choose family over everything, makes me realize I was the idiot who walked away from the best thing that ever happened to me.
This time, I'm not asking her to choose between us and her family.
This time, I'm choosing all of it—the chaos, the kid who thinks I'm really Santa, and the woman I never stopped loving.
I threw away our happily-ever-after once. This Christmas, I'm getting it back.
Genre: Romance
Holly steps onto my sleigh in red velvet and white fur, and suddenly I'm drowning in vanilla perfume and memories. Thirteen months ago, I gave her an ultimatum—me or her sister's chaos—and she chose the five-year-old niece who needed her.
Now we're stuck playing Mr. and Mrs. Claus for four hours a day, her hip pressed against mine on that damned sleigh. Every "ho ho ho" is torture when all I want is to drag her into the gingerbread house and show her exactly what she's been missing.
She's barely keeping her head above water—raising her niece alone, dodging overdue bills, fighting exhaustion with a smile that still destroys me.
But watching her with Ivy, seeing her choose family over everything, makes me realize I was the idiot who walked away from the best thing that ever happened to me.
This time, I'm not asking her to choose between us and her family.
This time, I'm choosing all of it—the chaos, the kid who thinks I'm really Santa, and the woman I never stopped loving.
I threw away our happily-ever-after once. This Christmas, I'm getting it back.
Genre: Romance
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