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“Why are you up?”

I turn and s roo and a drink

“I don’t know I just woke up But I wanted to let you sleep I like the tree”

“I’est one on the lot, and you just had to have it”

“We have tall ceilings,” I reht”

“If you say so” He kissesokay?”

“I’d say everything’s pretty much perfect How are you?”

“I’ive you your presents”

I scowl at hiht”

“That was Christmas Eve”

“Zane, I don’t need a bunch of stuff I have everything a person could want You donated so much money to my school, they don’t even knohat to do with it all”

“Oh, they knohat to do,” he says with a grin “They’re going to fund all of the lunches andto make sure all of the kids have the supplies they need Teachers shouldn’t have to pay for that out of pocket”

Is it any wonder I’m completely in love with him?

“You’ve done enough”

“Well, there s” He smiles innocently

“You first” I juold from under the tree, and present it to him “This is for you”

He takes it, shakes it, smells it

“It’s not food”

“You never know I love cake”

I shake ood humor while he unties the bow, then works on the paper Inside is a es are a little crinkled

But when Zane reads the first page, his eyes find mine in surprise

“Aubrey”

I sory Peck’s script frobird”

“I don’t knohat to say” He gently opens the pages and reads the handwritten notes in the in “This is priceless My God, Aubrey, how did you find it?”

“I have to have so in the known universe You’re not the easiestmy secrets close”