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Palmer grinned at her phone from behind the large desk in her office where she'd been adjusting numbers from the winter fundraiser for her typical siphoning from the soup kitchen non-profit she ran. Despite being caught laundering money, she'd gotten away with it and certainly hadn't stopped. Romeo had been the most intriguing surprise in her brush with the law and it only made her all the more excited to have him reaching out to her on an otherwise plan-less Christmas Eve.
"Merry Christmas, you missed me that much hmm?" She leaned back in the chair, tucking the papers into her bag before texting him again. "You busy? I'd love to see my little helper. Might even have a Mrs. Claus outfit I could pop on for a good boy."
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"I'm not bringing him home, Mom!" Why not! You FaceTime all the time but I never see him. I want to meet this boy. "Because we face time on my walk home from the aquarium and he doesn't work with me." Zarja walked into her apartment building exhausted from the crowds coming into work now that schools were on winter break and frustrated with the long lie she'd been dragging out just so her parents didn't come visit worried that she was overworking and lonely. The last thing she needed was for them to see her tiny apartment or the long hours she worked, but she was happy living out her dream and finding her independence. She'd entirely missed what her mother was saying as she dug through her bag for her key. "Mom, I love you. Can't we just be happy I'm coming home for a week? It would be too weird being in my old room and you making him sleep on the sofa." I'm Catholic but I wasn't born yesterday. "Oh please, Mom, you've never even seen me kiss a boy!"
Zarja dropped her keys, hearing the latch of her neighbor's door unlock. She'd always been a bit too reckless for her own good. Though they'd seen each other in passing, she'd never seen him with anyone and there was hardly any time between them locking eyes and the movement of her picking up her keys. "Oh no! Did I wake you up, Baby? You were going to work late tonight, weren't you?" Holding her phone to her chest, she quickly mouthed 'help me' before leaning against his chest, nuzzling close and kissing his jaw with the camera turned toward them. "See, now you see him. Good night, see you for Christmas." But she only tossed her phone on the counter so that her mother could still hear while staring at the ceiling. "Sorry I'm late." Zarja gently pressed her fingers to his lips. "My parents still want you to come for the holidays. You're working though, right?" The last thing she expected was for him to agree to go home with her or to touch her back, but now that she was really drinking him in for the first time, she couldn't help but realize just how attractive he was.
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