6. Jasper

6

Jasper

H is mate was hurting. And she was lying about it.

Something like panic gripped him as they all headed to dinner, and it still had him in its claws when they returned home. It didn’t let go, all that night or the next.

Everything he’d been doing to make this Christmas the best year ever, to make things magical and wonderful and perfect? It hadn’t worked. He needed to—to—

Try harder. Do even better.

And he had one last chance to do it.

Christmas Eve.

Tonight.