Shaking my head, I told him, “None of your friends sent me. It’s the letter you wrote.”
Then I realized what would make him understand. He needed to see the letter. Reaching back into my car, I rummaged around for the letter. “Here it is!”
I handed the envelope to him. “Does this look familiar?”
Chapter 5
Levi
Then, she bent over to get something out of her car, and my eyes almost popped out of my head. She had an ass on her as big as Arkansas. She was a curvy thing in general, butdamn, that ass. I felt my cock straining in my underwear.
Why did I have to go hard in front of this woman?
Hell, why was I such an idiot that I thought almost-naked axe-swinging was a good idea at all?
It was just that the only people who ever visited me out here were my parents or my sister. And they always had the decency to call first.
When she popped back out of her car she held up an envelope that looked familiar. I stepped forward and reached out, grabbing it out of her hands.
As I took the letter, I handed Cocoa back to her.
It was a tiny, fluffy thing, but sweet. The poor dog was dressed in a Christmas sweater. Didn’t this lady know dogs just want to be dogs?
Then I studied the envelope. This was definitely from me. I recognized the hearts and stars that Annie had drawn all over it. She’d said they were a special holiday magic spell to bring me good luck. She’d been going through her wizarding phase at the time.
Comet tipped his nose up trying to inspect it, too. My dog was pretty excited about this unexpected visit.
“Well, holy shit. This is the letter I wrote to Santa. How did you get this?”
I glanced at her and noticed she was staring at my dick again.
The trouble with that was it only made me harder.
She was looking at me as if she’d never seen a man before. But she was in her late-twenties or early-thirties. What I had underneath my underwear shouldn’t have been a surprise for a woman of her age.
And it was downright impolite for her to stare. Not that I minded. I was basking in the glow of her stare, a tiny flow of precum dribbling out of my dick.
This was the closest to sex that I’d been in years.
She finally dragged her eyes up, cheeks flushed pink as she met my gaze. “And you just seemed so sad in the letter. And I thought it would be nice for you to know that someone in this world heard your pain, even if I can’t make it better. You shouldn’t stop living your life just because of one bad day. I drove halfway across the country to tell you that.”
Her words hit me like a bag of bricks. But I didn’t want her to know that they’d had an effect on me.
I scrubbed a hand across the back of my neck and growled, “Are you saying you drove across the country to give me a pep-talk?”
The vixen in front of me looked embarrassed. “Yeah. In retrospect, this was a crazy idea, and like I said, I don’tdocrazythings. But I have this friend Jan, and she has a way of talking me into making bad decisions.”
Looking around, I didn’t see anyone else. “Is your friend here, too?”
“No. Just me. Hi. It’s nice to meet you in person, Levi. I feel like we already know each other.” She held out a delicate, gloved hand. And that’s when I saw her in a fresh light.
She wasn’t just a fluffball of a woman. She was prepared. Her gloves were leather with a bit of lining peeking out at the cuff. And her coat was designed for heavy winter. This was no lost tourist.
Robin knew how to handle herself in the cold of winter.
And I realized belatedly that I’d been acting like an ass.
It didn’t make sense that this woman had come all this way over a letter I’d mailed three years ago to Santa Claus. But the truth was, she was here, it was snowing, and she might want to get in out of the cold to warm up before she went on her way.
