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Chapter One

Sienna

“I’ve got the list with gifts ready,” I said into the phone, surveying the spreadsheet I’d labeled Christmas presents

“Wow You’re way ahead ofon it,” Pippa said “But that doesn’talready”

“I agree”

Buying gifts was my second favorite part of the holiday season My absolute favorite was hanging up Christmas ornaments My office was proof of that

“See you at six thirty?”

“Perfect”

So to shop so early for presents was overdoing it, but there were a lot of people in the Bennett clan, and buying the perfect present for each took time and dedication Pippa Bennett-Callahan was my favorite aunt, and

“Your boss is arriving today?” she asked

“Yep”

“Good luck”

“Thanks I’ll need all the luck I can get”

I sighed after hanging up My boss had been working out of the Seattle office until now, but he was officially h phone calls and emails until now

Everyone was in a frenzy thisfor him to show up

“Think the boss fro her head in my office

“Don’t call him that,” I said on a smile

“Why? Everyone else is”

“True But I don’t think he’ll be late Not his style”

He was i, but he was also brilliant Winston Stathaenius He took over the chain of department stores from his parents at only thirty years old He was just five years my senior I’d learned more in the months I worked with him than in two years at my previous job

I’d joined Statha junior My superior had to unexpectedly go on maternity leave early, and Winston decided I was equipped to take over her duties until she returned