“I guess we don’t need to worry about my club anymore since I’m a Drakos now, and the scandal would touch you and not my parents.”

He narrowed his gaze at me. “The club is closed. Without Nyx in Vegas, it doesn’t exist. Besides, you already have another career.”

“It exists wherever I am. And who says I can’t do both?”

“Don’t even think about it.”

Ignoring his order, I said, “I’m thinking in the city, right before Christmas. Silent Night does go with the theme of the season.”

“You could drive a man to drink.”

“Good thing you love me.”

He kissed my forehead. “Good thing.”

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Away in a Manger

Jade West

Chapter One

Lucian

Five years later

Once upon a time, not all that long ago, people would have never believed they’d see one of the Constantines at a Morelli family ball. Life is a strange thing though. Peace on Earth, goodwill to all men, so they say.

We hadn’t stretched to peace in our world by a long way, but the world had been sure as hell to accept Elaine Constantine as my wife. I’d been making certain of that since the moment I first stepped onto the red carpet with her on my arm, back in London.

Elaine wasn’t the only beautiful creature in my world now. There was another beautiful wonder that owned my soul along with her.

I could already feel the nerves in my gut as I prepared to leave our little boy at home. Arlo would be tucked up in bed with his nanny watching over him, but that didn’t ease the fear. It felt symbolic, somehow. The fear of a father leaving his son.

Elaine and I had been delaying the inevitable, turning down evening engagements together for an age, but we couldn’t do that tonight. I needed to reign tall as the head of Morelli Holdings for the world to see. My wife needed to be standing alongside me, in the place that she belonged.

I was downstairs playing hide and seek with Arlo as his mommy got herself ready to go, adoring his excitement as Christmas Day loomed. He was old enough to appreciate Santa Claus and reindeer, and the magic of the sleigh. I was plenty old enough to appreciate the magic in his eyes as he knew they were coming. It had been tingling in him for days.