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Contents ( 59)
  1. Dedication
  2. Contents
  3. One
  4. Christmas Is Coming
  5. Two
  6. Blue Christmas
  7. Three
  8. The Perfect Man for Christmas
  9. Four
  10. Here Comes Santa Claus
  11. Five
  12. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
  13. Six
  14. The Twelve Days of Christmas
  15. Seven
  16. Baby, It’s Cold Outside
  17. Eight
  18. Sleigh Ride
  19. Nine
  20. A Purrfect Christmas
  21. Ten
  22. Bossy Much
  23. Eleven
  24. There’s No Place Like Home for the Holidays
  25. Twelve
  26. Better Eat Your Vegetables
  27. Thirteen
  28. Pizza Gate
  29. Fourteen
  30. Frosty the Snowman
  31. Fifteen
  32. The Night Before Christmas
  33. Sixteen
  34. Santa Baby
  35. Seventeen
  36. Rocking Around the Christmas Tree
  37. Eighteen
  38. All I Want For Christmas Is You
  39. Nineteen
  40. Do You Hear What I Hear?
  41. Twenty
  42. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
  43. Twenty-one
  44. Silent Nights
  45. Twenty-two
  46. New Year’s Eve
  47. Note from the Author
  48. Sneak Peek – Let’s Be Just Friends
  49. One
  50. Rose
  51. Two
  52. Tyler
  53. Three
  54. Rose
  55. Four
  56. Georgiana
  57. Also by Camilla Isley
  58. About the Author
  59. Acknowledgments

“Boss, relax. We have it covered, went over it a million times.”

“Also, you need to stop calling me ‘boss.’ When we’re with my family, I’m Nikki.”

“Or I could tell them I call you ‘boss’ for how bossy you are.”

“I’m not bossy.” I hand Diego his cheat sheet of information about my family and keep the one about his. “So, backgrounds.”

“Bossy.” He grins.

I scowl. “Be serious, we can’t make mistakes. My family really needs to think we know each other.”

Diego leans forward, dropping his elbows on his knees. “But we do, and better than most couples. We’ve been together all the time for two weeks.” Never this close, though. His nose is only a few inches from mine. “Doesn’t matter if you forget my third uncle’s name.”

“You think you know me?”

“I do.”

“Prove it,” I challenge him.

“Name: Nicola Addison Moore. Birthday: April 24. Born and raised in Old Saybrook. NYU graduate with a degree in Marketing and Visual design. Father: Jason Moore. Mother: Dora Moore, maiden name Appleton. Only one sibling, Julia, soon to be married to Paul Collins. And it doesn’t matter if I don’t remember your Aunt Laurel’s middle name”—he pauses to peek at the sheet—“is Clara, and that she’s the one allergic to nuts.”

“It matters! You could offer her the wrong cookie and kill her,” I say, somewhat annoyed that he’s basically memorized the whole sheet, while I still struggle to remember all of his nephews’ names.

“No, it doesn’t. This list isn’t that important; not when I’ve learned everything else about you.”

“Like what?” I cross my arms pettily.

“You only have a few friends, but the ones you have, you would die for. Harry Potter is your favorite series, but you refuse to pick a single favorite book like everybody else because the story wouldn’t exist without all seven novels. You never leave the house before spraying yourself head to toe in Flower by Kenzo, the same perfume you’ve used since you were sixteen…”

I gape at him. “How do you know that?”

“Blair told me.” He winks.

Oh, so the two buggers talked about me behind my back.

“Anything else?” I ask.

“Yes. You like to paint your nails in the most obnoxious, shocking colors.” I stare down at my fingers, and the tips are in fact neon pink. “But you’d never use a lipstick shade other than nude. Pity, because a bold red would look killer on you, if I may say.”

“You may…” I mock-scold him.

Eyes never leaving mine, Diego continues, “You refuse to dress more casually at the office, even if your boss has probably told you a million times you could lie low on the suits…”

He has.

“…When you’re concentrating, you reach out to twirl a lock of hair around your finger, only to lower your hand, disappointed, because you’ve forgotten you’ve chopped it all off…”

As he keeps talking, it’s hard not to notice how green his eyes are, or how close our faces are hovering. Also hard to ignore is that, in just two weeks, he’s mapped me out better than any boyfriend I’ve ever had. And I don’t like the kind of fuzzy sensation his words are putting in my stomach, so I interrupt him, “Okay, you’re very observant. Noted.”