26. Perfect Christmas gift

George Galanti

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I must have said before that I didn’t usually like cuddling but I was beginning to think I had an exception for the woman currently in my arms. She was already making me break some rules. What were a few more?

I had woken up a long time ago and my natural instinct had been to get to work but I couldn’t bring myself to stand up from the bed and disengage my body from hers.

When she began to wake up, I was disappointed because it meant she’d be standing up soon, but I didn’t dare move. I didn’t want to alert her that I was awake and then speed up her process of leaving the hotel room.

Abigail yawned as her eyes fluttered open. She closed them again for a while before she started wiggling around, trying to feel movements in her limbs. Suddenly, she paused and her eyes snapped open to look at me.

I held back a smile. She was pretty cute. “Good morning.”

“Have you been watching me like a creep?”

I rolled my eyes and leaned down to kiss her but she placed her hand in betw