She really wanted to see him in the sweater.
Gray just sighed. “Just tell me it’s not another poop sweater.”
“Uh, it’s not a poop sweater.”
“Well, I guess that’s good then.”
Actually, when he saw the sweater, he was going to wish it was another poop sweater because this one was far, far worse.
And maybe she really had let out an evil laugh.
Hopefully Santa was too busy to pay attention to how naughty Maeve had been.
2
CAT AND ALEJANDRO
21st December
“That elf is evil.”
There was no other explanation. It had to be evil. And a tattletale. Because yesterday, when she’d been skateboarding through the house, doing her best tricks, no one else had been around.
Except that damn elf.
Yesterday, it had been hanging onto the banister and had had a clear view of her on her skateboard.
A coincidence that Alejandro found out what she’d been doing?
She thought not.
That darn elf had gotten her butt spanked.
That wasn’t cool. She was losing good girl points because of that elf.
“Are you reporting back to Santa as well as Papi?” Cat glared up at the elf. It was sitting in the enormous Christmas tree that Papi had installed in the entrance of the Southampton house.
She hadn’t been allowed to decorate this tree. Apparently, it was too big. Well, she’d done a few of the lower branches, but Doomy Gloomy had done most of it.
He’dbeen allowed up the ladder.
She still didn’t understand what the big deal was. She had excellent balance. You should see her on a skateboard.
There was no trick that she couldn’t do.
Well, she had had trouble gaining air. It wasn’t so much the getting into the air part, but the coming back down. She’d put up a small ramp yesterday and managed to fly through the air, then crashed down.
That’s what Alejandro said he’d been most upset about. That she could have hurt herself.
Pfft.
That was ridiculous.
She was like rubber. She bounced back up. Good as new. All right, so there was a bit of a bruise on her hip. Thankfully, it hadn’t been showing yesterday when Alejandro had checked her over.
It was all the elf’s fault that she’d gotten her bottom spanked.
Sure, she was conveniently forgetting the rules about not skateboarding in the house, not skateboarding without supervision, and not skateboarding without protection.
