by Ember Flint
I put my oversized bag over my shoulder and slip my fuzzy mittens inside it, then I think better of it and pull them out again. Seth always teases me that my hands are a furnace no matter the weather, but they still feel cold to me and I’ll probably end up with frostbites outside even by standing in the snow for a minute, no matter how much of a thick-skinned, born and raised New Yorker I am.
As I finish pulling the second wool red mitten with white snowflakes embroidered on it over my left hand, my cell goes off with a Christmassy tune —yes I am that annoying— and my eyes almost pop out as I read the caller ID.
Gillian Suxon, Her Royal Bitchness.
Why is she calling me?
Scratch that. How does she have this number?
Saying this is an unforeseen occurrence and an unpleasant one at that would be putting it mildly.
Gillian is Seth’s catty, Grinch-before-his-heart-grew ex-girlfriend. She made his life miserable while they were together and let’s not forget the small detail that she hates my guts so bad she has to take Maalox just to look at me —a reciprocal feeling, by the way.
I stare at her name a little longer —there’s no picture of her on the screen, I’m not that crazy— and then I take the call.
“Evelyn speaking, what do you want, Gillian?”
Okay maybe I’m being a little short or even rude, but I don’t care: I’ve had a long day and I don’t need her crap right now.
“Evelyn, dahling, how are you?”
I roll my eyes. I hate her stupid, fake, condescending ‘dahlings’.
She is so phony she probably has a Mattel brand stamped on her bony ass. I mean, you hate me for fuck’s sake, can’t you at least own up to it?
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Table of Contents
Enchantingly Entangled
Copyright
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Epilogue
Epilogue 2
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