Read Online His Xmas Surprise by Jordan Silver - Free Book Online

my headache began,
an actual throbbing behind my eyes.
    She of course made a beeline for me
but I sidestepped her easily by heading in the opposite direction in the
pretense of greeting Pamela.
    There was no point in blaming Pamela
for any of this, there's no way she could've known that I was newly engaged.
    "Tanner it's so amazing to find
you here, I've been so worried that no one seemed to now where you
were..."
    "Hello Yvette how are you?"
    "Fine now that you're
here."
    I saw Anna arch her brow, oh shit;
how the fuck do I get out of this situation without too many hurt feelings? Not
that I gave a shit about Yvette's feelings but I didn't want Anna thinking that
there was anything going on between us, not on her wedding day.
    "Anna, I don't recall seeing you
board the plane with us."
    Pamela looked a little confused.
    "That's because she didn't,
she's been here with Tanner all this time." I could just see the malicious
gleam in the pixie's eyes.
    "Who is that?" Yvette had
an ugly sneer on her face as she turned to look at Anna from across the room
where she'd been in the process of following after me.
    "Yvette allow me to introduce
you to my new daughter in law."
    She screeched, no seriously, I
couldn't reproduce that sound if my life depended on it. Then she pointed her
well manicured finger at my beauty and declared...
    "But she's so...ordinary
looking."
    And this is the point where the
headache became a full blown migraine because my lovely fiancé threw her bowl
of whatever the hell she was stirring, one handed I might add, at Yvette.
    She didn't miss.
    There was batter from the top of her
head to the thighs of her designer slacks. You could hear the thump of the
heavy ceramic bowl as it connected with her chest.
    Cynthia, ever the helpful one caught
the bowl before it shattered on the marble floor.
    That screeching started up again and
my head was done.
    "Oops, I guess there'll be no
waffles this Xmas." Anna-Maria dead panned.
    "Were you making your praline
waffles?"
    "Yes Cindy I was."
    "Oh hell no, I'll help you get
the stuff together, I love your waffles."
    "What...waff...you're discussing
waffles after what that...thing did to me?"
    I got between them just in time to
save her stupid ass from a face punch if Anna's folded fist was anything to go
by.
    "Easy there slugger."
    "Who is this insect and why is
she in my world?" Anna actually growled at me with what looked like murder
in her eyes.
    Yvette was spluttering all over her
face, she really needed to go do something about the mess that she was.
    "How dare you, I'm calling the
police, what's the number for nine one one in this godforsaken place?"
    No one bothered to answer her as she continued
her threats. I had to put Anna in a semi headlock to keep her from going after
her again.
    Dad, Doc and Justin came into the
room, obviously to see what all the ruckus was about.
    Doc for some inexplicable reason took
one look at Yvette, then me, then Anna, and shook his head.
    "Okay champ what did she call
you, scrawny?"
    "Nope, she went with
ordinary."
    "Oh shit, uh, Yvette is
it?"
    He walked over to her as I looked at
the other players in the room, especially my proper to her bones mother.
    Her shoulders were shaking, her eyes
were watery as she covered her lower face with her hand, she was literally
crying with laughter.
    Thanks mom.
    I rolled my eyes at her she just
shrugged and turned her face into dad's chest.
    The Doc carried on his conversation
with the uninvited Yvette.
    "Well now, you said something
about the police, I think it only fair to warn you that I'm a deputy back home,
that's my daughter, we law enforcement types like to stick together if you know
what I mean so I'm afraid that won't do you any good."
    "But that's back in
America."
    "Uh, this is American soil
child, besides, I'm sure you have something even more smashing to wear. Are you
a model?"
    "At the pound..."
    I squeezed Anna's neck a little to
get her to shut up, she turned her head and tried to