dragon fire

chapter 44

Chapter 44

"Hey how long have you been awake?" I asked turning over in bed; Quinn is sitting up in bed, staring at me. His eyes are still a little blurry, and his hair is a mess.

"Not long. I've been watching you sleep."

"Well that's a little creepy. But correct me if I'm wrong, but did I hear him say that he loves you last night? Because if he did, then you can say it to him."

Smiling I'm not going to talk to her, not with Quinn sitting right here next to me.

"What time is it?" "About seven thirty take some time to get ready; I'll make you something to eat." I was about to argue, but he got off the bed and out the door before I could even get my mouth open.

"He really does love you, you know that don't you?"

The truth is I do know that. But I also know that until Cormac is dealt with that there is no way it can ever work out between us. Cormac will do whatever it takes to get me on his side, and become his mate, but that will never happen, in this life or the next. I will die before that happens!

"We will deal with him, he will not hurt you again."

"What if there are others still out there, that there like me, always on the run? I could have more family out there somewhere; that they could help me with him. If we were close to anyone would we be able to feel them?"

"I do not know. It is possible; but did you feel anything with Cormac?"

"No I didn't. I could have met them, and not even known it. I could be the last of my kind after we deal with Cormac. Then I will truly be alone." Falling back on the mattress, hitting my head on the headboard. "Ow. Just for once I want to have something, anything."

"You will my love, you will."

Yeah I doubt it. Climbing out of bed, I grabbed some clothes and headed for the bathroom, to get ready for work. Since we moved down here; I brought my stuff down from my room.

With it getting closer to Christmas the shop will be getting crazy.

I have no idea what I'm going to do for Christmas now; I was going to cook dinner for Mia.

Well I guess I could, for Tina Lisa and I, but there not much point for just the three of us.

Stepping into the kitchen, Quinn is making us each a plate, walking over to the fridge I grabbed the orange juice. Looking at the calendar it's December 14 only two days until my birthday, I just have to hope that Quinn isn't planning on doing anything for it.

Sitting at the table; the box that Quinn gave me is sitting there. Why would he have put that there?

Setting my plate down, he tapped the box, picking it up. "You should wear this." "I don't want to wreck it, or lose it." "That's crazy, nothing will happen to it. So lift up your hair."

Sighing I did as he said, and lifted my hair as he put it around my neck, fastening it in place.

"There now it's perfect. Now eat; we have to get into work." I nodded; and picked up my fork. He made us eggs, sausages and hash browns, and toast. Taking a bite, it tastes good, he's a good cook. "So what is on the menu today?" "The usual and we're going to be doing some Christmas baking; everyone will go nuts for it. So after we eat, we will head in." I nodded and finished up. Getting up from the table, I cleaned up while he finished eating.

"You know it will be your first Christmas here. Maybe you should invite him, and the four of you have dinner together. Have a decent holiday for once."

She has a point; I could do that, but I'll ask him later on. I don't have much in the way of clean up, but do a bit of dishes.

"Alright we should get going, Lisa will probably be there already." I nodded, and went to grab our coats from the hall closet.

The boxes of Mia's stuff is still there, looking at it, I don't want her to be gone, I want her to still be here; she was the first thing I've had like a mother for a very long time, and now she's gone.

"I'll have someone come pick those up." I nodded, and handed him his coat and grabbed the keys. "I have someone coming later on to install an alarm system. So you and Lisa will be at the shop alone for a while." "Ok, that'll be fine, we like each other enough now, so we should be good, for a while at least."

Locking the door, he pulled me into his arms and gave me a kiss; that took my breath away.

Letting go of me; he smiled and took my hand, leading me down to the car. "Why aren't we walking?" "I thought it would be safer to drive."

Safer? I know what he means by that; he means the danger of Cormac being around somewhere. Driving through town, everyone is putting up Christmas decorations; it started to snow before we left, covering everything in a fine layer of white. "It looks like it will be a white Christmas after all." I said looking out my window.

We pulled over in front of the shop, stepping out Lisa is putting up a wreath on the door.

Stepping into the shop Lisa handed us each a mug of hot cholate, from the diner. "I was wondering where the two of you were."

Locking the door we stepped into the back, looking around Lisa has all kinds of Christmas stuff out, sitting on the floor is the stuff he got when we were in New York.

"So what are we making?" "The usual stuff, cookies, a few pies and other Christmas goodies. So we're going to open early so let's get started."

Tying on my apron, Lisa as most of my cupcakes done, she has all of her cakes done, and even has a good portion of the cookies done.

"How long have you been here?" Shrugging she said. "A while. Like he said we're opening early; so I thought we should have stuff done already. Was that not alright?" "No it's great. I don't overly like the mixing part, so thank you for that." She nodded, smiling and got to work on her cakes. Turning to my work I started a fresh batch of icing, making red, white and green, and some blue.

Quinn also got at some point a bunch of different decorating tools, he even got a different set for Lisa.

Looking over the trays, she made chocolate, vanilla and even red velvet cupcakes, again.

Picking what I want I got to work.

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