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She must not be ready to deal with this. I’m not about to rush her.

“Let’s enjoy the hot coco, the cookies, and our families. Dishes can wait until ... after Christmas,” I say.

Valerie turns in my arms and grins. “You’re a very good fiancée.”

As if that’s a challenge, I cup her ass and squeeze while grinding her against me. “In multiple ways.”

“Lief!” she gasps, then giggles. “As soon as the guests are asleep, we can do that.”

I bring her back to the couch so she can talk with my parents, her brother, as well as Chase and Hunter. I’m happy to watch this each year. With snow, a hot fire, and family, it’s a fairytale Christmas.

When we get in bed and Valerie hints at presents in the worst ways to lead us off track, I grin. I’ve already submitted my two-week’s notice. They accepted an agreement–I’ll keep training new recruits part time.

More time with the love of my life and more moments like today.

I don’t need anything else for Christmas.

SIX

Valerie

I tryto get up before my guys, so I can make sure everything is perfect. As I position myself half-over Lief, his eyes open and he flashes a ridiculous smile.

“Lief, shh, I-” I whisper before trying again to escape.

He wraps his arms around me and pulls me down on him. “Merry Christmas to you, pet,” he says in my ear. “You don’t want morning cuddles?”

I blink at him, then snuggle against his chest. He rubs my back and kisses my temple. “Let’s shower and show Chase and Hunter the Christmas pajamas you got us.”

We do just that, forcing them into the cute onesies I found. Lief’s mom takes a picture of us and I notice she and Rodger are wearing matching pajamas, too.

Tristan rubs his forehead before taking a long drink of coffee. “What did you do to get your fiancé’s into those outfits?”

I shove him and he complains about his coffee spilling before sitting down.

“You didn’t go crazy, did you?” I ask the guys while looking over the number of presents under the tree.

“No, not by our standards,” Chase answers.

Of course, his standards are private yacht dates and trips to aquariums states away. I narrow my eyes at them. Hunter insists on passing out the gifts. He beams the whole time while Chase teases him.

Even the manliest men love Christmas. It’s wonderful.

Josefine laughs as Hunter gives me another one before tossing at Chase and another to Tristan. Once we are all set with our boxes, I glower at my fiancés. They went way over the top and they know it based on the shit-eating grins they’re wearing.

“I think you should start, Josefine,” I say as I dismantle the tower of boxes around me.

She opens up a necklace with sapphire from Hunter and a nice diamond tennis bracelet from Chase. When she opens the apple watch from Lief, we get a smile.

“I’ve wanted one of these to improve my efficiency,” Josefine says.

Lief nods once. “I remembered our conversation about them.”

I got her a picture she sent me of her and Lief blown up onto a canvas. She opens it and touches her throat. “Thank you, Valerie.”

I grin. “You liked it enough to send it to me, so I thought you’d like it bigger.”

We go through presents and Hunter gives Chase a look when he opens a box and finds a ‘computers for dummies’ book.

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