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Holly realized that when she’d bent to get the garland, the quilt had slid off her shoulders to the floor Her husband’s eyes trailed slowly over her thin, see-through white T-shirt and the tiny knit shorts Her body felt his gaze like a hot physical touch
“Stavros,” she breathed
Pulling her into his arry and hard His jacket flew off, followed by his knit hat
And as they sank together to the quilt on the floor, bodies entwined, Holly felt not just passion this tirant with pine and sugar cookies and a crackling fire She’d never known joy could be like this
And as her husband ht, on the quilt beneath the sparkling tree, Holly knew that even with the ups and downs ofun on Christmas Eve, when all the world was hushed and quiet, as two people spoke private vows, holding each other in the silent, holy night
Three babies crying, all at once
Stavros looked helplessly at his wife, who looked helplessly back Then Holly’s lips suddenly lifted, and they both laughed Because what else could you do?
“I’ on the snowy sidewalk as she held the hand of Freddie, now fourteenwith his chubby face pink with heat and lined with pillow etically, “I shouldn’t have woken him from his nap But I was sure he’d want to meet his new brother and sister”
Holly and Stavros looked at each other, then at their hours-old babies behind theree, with telepathic twin powers, that they hated their car seats They’d screamed the whole ride ho screech, Stavros had seen Colton, his longtime, normally unflappable driver, flinch beneath his uniforh by trading in the Rolls-Royce for the biggest luxury SUV on the market
And that wasn’t even the biggest change Six nant with twins, they’d decided to move to Brooklyn, of all places
“Our kids will need friends to play with,” Holly had wheedled “And I want to live near the other secretaries from work”
“You’re friends again?”
“Most of the a billionaire” She flashed a wicked grin “In fact, when you’re grumpy at the office, they even feel a little sorry for me”
“Hey!”
“The point is, I don’t want to raise our kids in a lonely penthouse They need a real neighborhood to play in Like Nicole and I had ere young”