CHAPTER 18

Elijah was happy. The radio was on and Starlight sat in his truck, singing ‘Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree’ along with Brenda Lee while holding a steaming cup of hot chocolate in her hands. Her eyes were sparkling and she looked happy like a little girl on Christmas Day…

He drove five miles an hour down First Lane, uncaring that they were wedged, bumper to bumper, among the opening-night crowd. At the rate they were going, it would take an hour before they were done.

And he couldn’t be happier. Not that their adventures in the bedroom an hour ago hadn’t been amazing. They definitely were. Starlight was amazing between the sheets, so passionate, so sexy… so mind-blowing… And that body…

“Wow,” she said, stopping the train of his thoughts, “Look, Elijah,” Starlight added, tapping the window at one especially lit-up home. “Check out those animatronics. Do you get extra points for that?”

“Depends on the judging committee. There was a big fallout a few years