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He looked down at her "I have an extra bedroom She’s welcome to stay there, too"

Her heart soared with so much love she didn’t knohat to do with it all Tears filled her eyes "I’m not sure I deserve you I’m kind of bitchy and mean"

He shook his head "You’re a beautiful dancer with a kind soul You’re sexy and you’ve filled hter and love I want you in rasped his face between her hands "I love you, Trick"

He wrapped his arms around her and kissed her, a deep, powerful kiss that ceether "I love you, too, Stella"

As they left her aparthts and stared at that tiny little Christ the past behind and creating a new beginning

This was going to be the best holiday ever

Epilogue

Stella was so grateful to have the Christiving notice to her apartment complex, she and Greta had packed up the place, put furniture into storage that Greta wanted to keep for her apartment, and moved the boxes and clothes into Trick’s place

For a guy, Trick was unreasonably easy about her taking over his apart on a per his bedrooe closets, because she had a lot of clothes

And on top of trying to settle into living together, Stella had estion to host a Christmas Eve party at the apartreat idea

So now she was dressed in soh heels on, and she and Greta had already gone over the to-do list seely a hundred times Since she sucked as a cook, they’d ordered food to be brought in, and they had ample alcohol, all of it set up in the kitchen

The house was already perfectly decorated and the scent of cinnamon filled the air

She dashed into the bedroom to take one last look at her hair, and she stopped to take in the sight of thedressed

He wore black slacks, his dark hair spilling over the collar of his white button-down shirt