Page 45 of Single Girl Rules: HoHoHo

I pulled the handle down inch by inch, and then I eeeeeeasedthe door open.

I thought it was going to be tough to find the Christmas treein the giant suite. But this was some sort of strange room that just had alittle hallway, a bathroom, and a bedroom with a minifridge.

Weird.Where was the kitchen? And the parlor? And theother bedrooms?

The compact layout of the room was both a blessing and acurse.

It was a blessing because the Christmas tree was visibleright from the doorway.

But it was a curse because a soldier was sleeping in the bedabout five feet away from the tree.

I took a second to learn the rhythm of his snoring. And thenI tiptoed to that rhythm, letting my heels click each time he snored.

It worked like a charm. And before I knew it, I was at thetree. I slid the present into place and I was about to turn around to leavewhen I saw that he’d left me some milk and cookies.

Eating them was definitely part of the job, right? I grabbedthe cookie and crunched into it. Like…really crunched. Way louder than I’d meantto.

The snoring stopped.

Shit!

I stayed completely still as the sound of sheets movingfilled the room.

Shit, shit, shit!

But then the sheets settled and the snoring started up again.

Oh thank God.I let out a breath and looked down atthe half-eaten cookie in my hand. I couldn’t crunch into it again. So instead Idipped it into the milk to soften it up a little. There was no noise as I chewedup the rest of the cookie. And then I downed the milk and tiptoed out.

As soon as the door was closed I took a few deep breaths andtried to steady my heart rate. Almost getting caught really had my adrenalinepumping. I was such a good sexy elf. Not only had I not gotten caught, but I’dalso gone super fast. Now it was just up to the rest of the team to work asfast I did.

I glanced down the hallway hoping to see Ghostie arrivingwith my second package. But instead…

How the hell?!

The three rooms next to me all had beautiful wrapped redpresents sitting by the door, just waiting for me to deliver them.

Maybe I hadn’t been as fast as I’d thought…

I ran over and grabbed the next package. And then I did thesame routine, just way faster. Or…a little faster.

Ghostie had dropped off two more red packages while I’d beenin there.

At least it wasn’t three more, though.

My third delivery went even better, only giving Ghostie timefor one more delivery.

And my fourth one was the easiest yet. Because no one waseven in the room. As soon as I saw that the bed was empty, I sprinted in andtossed the present under the tree. Then I drank the milk down in a single gulpand grabbed the cookie to-go.

I spun around and ran straight into some rock-hard abs.

“Gotcha,” said a deep voice as the lights on the Christmastree turned on.

Oh fuck.

I stepped back and looked up at the three soldiers in frontof me.

And they all stared down at me.

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