Wrapped Up For Christmas Novels & Stories

she smiles as she scoops her up and sits her in her lap. There are only two weeks left until Christmas, which means I need to make a start on looking for her gifts. Every year she gets a gift for Christmas and a gift for her birthday. granted they're always secondhand, and from a dumpster but I've always got lucky in finding pretty decent toys for her, and for that, I'm grateful. "Momma, for my birthday this year can I have a Christmas tree, pleaseee!" she holds her hands together begging me to say yes and I swear I feel a small piece of my heart die.

“Answer me.” She swallowed hard and nodded quickly. “Y-yes, ma’am. We… We have a holiday charity drive. Toys for kids in shelters. Clothes for families. There’s a wishlist on the system. We can… we can pull it up.” I smiled wider. “Good. Let’s start shopping and give some lucky people a happy Christmas.” She looked terrified but she moved fast and I followed her with a smile that turned into a grin as I thought of all I'm gonna do.

Before I could figure out what was going on, a tall and slender woman approached Dylan and me. She locked arms with Dylan and shot me an irritated look, asking, "Who's this?" Dylan answered before I could even say a word, speaking in a tone that made it seem like we had coincidentally run into each other. "She's Blake's girlfriend. She came to look for him." The woman immediately dropped her guard and curiously gave me a once-over. She smiled sweetly and introduced herself as Trixie Ashford. She was Dylan's girlfriend, and she had returned to the country specifically to celebrate Christmas with him.

Completely overwhelmed. She didn't know what Christmas was. But she was absolutely certain she approved. Meanwhile Harper sat on the couch looking enormous. The twins were due in a few months. Daisy wasn't far behind. Both women surrounded by blankets. Both looking tired. Both looking happy. "Okay." Noah clapped his hands. "Present time." The children erupted immediately. Paper flew. Bows flew. Somehow Theo got tangled in ribbon. Nobody asked how. Lillie mostly enjoyed the wrapping paper.

They'd ordered two large tents that would be set up on the Robinson property over the weekend. The power company promised electric hookup first thing Monday morning. Portable heaters were ordered along with all the Christmas decorations from the Curiosity Barn. The wholesaler she'd contacted had promised delivery of the wreath wires, the lath, the florist wires, the specialty bow, and everything else she needed for assembling the wreaths and grave blankets.

he said again. On the table in front of him was a box wrapped in colorful gift wrap paper, complete with a bow on top. I let out a chuckle as I inspected the box. I lifted it up in my hand and felt some kind of metal clanging. Is he giving me a gun? “What’s this?” I narrowed my eyes at him. “It’s a present,” he said simply. “Happy early Christmas, my man,” “Christmas was a month ago, dumbass,” I rolled my eyes at him.

The downtown area was similar to a lot of the towns Dak had visited recently, looking for the perfect place to start his new endeavor, but there was something slightly different about Christmas Falls, something special he couldn’t quite put his finger on. The Christmas decorations hanging from the lamp posts and strung around the trees were the same white lights, red bows, garland, and cartoony characters as everywhere else, seasonal flowers blooming from the flower beds while banners announced where he was and that he was welcome there, but an excitement seemed to hang in the air that he could only describe as a certain kind of Christmas magic he couldn’t ever remember encountering before.

I looked at the box and saw more toys that needed to be wrapped. “Every year, on a Christmas day, we give gifts to our favorite charity near the island, and I wrap the gifts personally.” She beamed. “I have a thing for wrapping gifts,” She whispered, making me laugh. “How can I help?” If I would be marrying Blake, then this should be part of my practice, too. Samantha’s eyes sparkled. “Thank you, Tara. Those guys just enjoy the giving,” She sneered. “Didn’t they know that the exciting part was unwrapping the gift?”

I still had my stuffed animals pressed into my chest. As soon as the girls saw my arms stuffed with the panda and Rudolph they squealed and begged for one. I couldn't deny them and their big puppy eyes, plus carrying two was being a hassle. So I gladly handed over the big panda but kept Rudolph for myself. Knox won it for me and as weird as it sounded I wanted to keep it. We were all currently walking down the street that had been closed for the festival. Christmas decorations lined the buildings and in almost every store front was a Christmas tree perfectly decorated. Christmas music was being played loud enough we could hear it.

Julia I slipped out of bed in the early hours of the morning of Christmas, rummaging through my closet in search of the wrapped presents I'd stashed there weeks back for the twins' birthday. Knowing how nosy and keen the little devils could be, I hid them just in case they decided to go through my things, which they did more often than not. I still wasn't sure what it was they were always going looking for yet. I carried a few boxes in hand, tiptoeing down across the hallway and biting down on my lips so hard I almost broke skin.