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- One Wrapper

- One Courier

- One Deliverer

The female elves will be the deliverers. The other threeroles can be filled by any male elf.

I require precision in all aspects of these deliveries. Ifyour assembly or wrapping are not up to my standards, those deliveries will notcount. Likewise, a delivery will not count if you get caught…unless you makethe target think they’re having a sexy dream.

One lucky member of the winning team will get a special treat,so don’t dilly dally.

Merry Christmas,

Santa Claus

“Seems simple enough,” said Tommy. “Any objections to mebeing the assembler? I’m pretty quick at building stuff.”

“Sounds good to me,” I said. That was exactly what he wassupposed to do. The Chadwicks’ had built their entire empire on their abilityto put buildings up at record speeds. And Tommy was the brains of theirconstruction business. Daddy always complained that Tommy Rapide could work threetimes as fast as our best man.

Ghostie grunted in approval too.

I turned to the banana king. “You look like you’d be good atwrapping.”

“Does he?” asked Tommy. “His hands are massive.”

True.But the Locatellis were known for their fine Italianfinishes. And when I broke into his office I’d seen that painting of me that he’ddone. Not to mention the model town he’d built. And I’d never forget what itfelt like to have his hands all over me. If there was one thing I was sure ofwith the banana king, it was that he was good with his hands.

“I’ll wrap,” said the banana king. His tone left no room forargument.

“And I’ll take the presents from the wrapping station to oursexy elf for final delivery,” said Ghostie. “I guess that’s what the courier does?”

“I think so,” I said. “Now let’s see what else is in the box.”I dug into the tissue paper and found four more presents wrapped in red paper,each labeled with one of the four roles.

Tommy the assembler got a schematic for how to make a woodentoy gun.

The banana king the wrapper got a diagram of a perfectlywrapped present.

Ghostie the courier got a map of the hotel, with some roomscircled in red.

And I got a Royal Spielzeughersteller Hotel key card. In thespot you’d usually write a room number, it just had an infinity sign.

Phew.I’d really hoped that Ghostie and Teddybear wouldget me a keycard instead of making me go down chimneys and climb betweenbalconies. After my near-death slip while getting to the hot tub earlier, I’dhad quite enough balcony climbing for one evening.

“Anything else in there?” I asked as I pocketed the keycard.

Ghostie dug further into the red tissue paper and pulled outfour smart watches. The digital displays all showed 28 for a second, and then 27.And then 26.

We each put one on and watched them tick down to 0. When theygot to three, the countdown switched to words:

ON YOUR MARK. Our watches dinged, like a cute littleChristmas bell.

GET SET. Our watches played a slightly louder bell.

GO! Those were the loudest bells yet. Almost deafening, really.

Chapter 11 – Special Delivery

Christmas Eve, 2013

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