Santa's Dirty Obsession
Something light and easy that wouldn’t require too much thought.
At first, we sat in awkward silence, both of us hyper-aware of the other’s presence. But somewhere around the twenty-minute mark, something shifted.
A joke landed perfectly, and I laughed—a real laugh, not the polite kind—and when I glanced over, Grayson was smiling at me instead of the screen.
“What?” I asked.
“Nothing,” he said. “I just… I forgot what your laugh sounded like. I’m glad I got to hear it again.”
My chest tightened, but I didn’t know what to say, so I just turned back to the movie.