Page 12 of All I Want for Christmas Eve

“You’re a good daughter to take care of him like that,” Adam says. “And I wouldn’t blame you for leaving this place. There isn’t much to do way out here. I can’t even invite you out to dinner and a movie, because there are no restaurants or movie theatres. Certainly no nightclubs to take you dancing. And even if there were, we would have no way of getting there.”

“Yeah, so there’s no chance of us becoming an Alaskan power couple,” I tell him with a shrug, before turning back to my work. Even as I shrug, I notice that there is less pain in my shoulders. Damn, that man has magical hands.

“It wasn’t the ‘Alaskan’ part that I really cared about,” Adam says. “I think we could be a power couple anywhere, Eve. How about the moon? Or Mars? Would you like to be Adam and Eve, the first man and woman to live on Mars, and start a whole new civilization together?”

I turn to glare at him slightly.

“Can’t be much harder than living in Alaska!” he says with a grin, balancing my books in one hand. “Or I could just come home with you, wherever home is. I could give you shoulder rubs when you’re working too hard in that basement office of yours. I could help you take care of your family, and we could be Adam and Eve, the power couple of—wherever you’re from.”

“I… I could be from somewhere awful,” I tell him. “I could be from… a very unpleasant place.”

Adam nods. “Except there isn’t any place on the planet more awful than the place where we currently are. And somehow, being here with you doesn’t seem so bad. You even made me thankful for crashing my plane. Like maybe something positive came out of a very unpleasant and dangerous situation. So, I can’t help thinking that being anywhere at all with you would be rather nice and cozy.”

With that, he leaves my office and shuts the door behind him to let me work in peace. I find myself staring at my computer screen, but not quite seeing the words. A faint blush tints my cheeks as I think about Adam.

That man is just way too handsome.

It doesn’t help that he has a way with words.

Who the heck is this guy, and where on earth did he come from?

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