“Not the way you mean it, but yes. Hundred percent! Hoo-ah!” She come up the hard way, nurse to senior administrator—doing a whole lot to respect. Raising he and his little sister on her own, she’d been both warm and strict. And he’d do anything to protect them both.
“So you’re a lump of coal Santa. Wouldn’t want to find you in my stocking; could ruin a whole Hanukkah Bush day. And Ma’am? Do I look like a ma’am?”
Nika Maier looked like a lot of good things he wouldn’t mind finding in stockings and a Ms. Claus mini-dress—an image he decided to keep to himself, especially because she hadn’t set aside that steel bar yet. Clint went for a different conversation though the image didn’t exactly fade away.
“Can’t say I much like sleighs either. Especially y’alls air cart,” he did his best to make the last a dismissive sneer, as beneath a gentleman soldier of Little Rock.
Maier brandished her pry bar again, proving the correctness of his earlier decision on keeping certain things to himself. “You take that back, Army. Nobody insults our little girl 316 and gets away with it.”
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Other works by M. L. Buchman:
The Night Stalkers
The Night Is Mine
I Own the Dawn
Daniel’s Christmas
Wait Until Dark
Frank’s Independence Day
Peter’s Christmas
Take Over at Midnight
Light Up the Night
Christmas at Steel Beach
Bring On the Dusk
Target Lock on Love
Christmas at Peleliu Cove
Zachary’s Christmas
Firehawks
Pure Heat
Wildfire at Dawn
Full Blaze
Wildfire at Larch Creek
Wildfire on the Skagit
Hot Point
Delta Force
Target Engaged
Angelo’s Hearth
Where Dreams are Born
Where Dreams Reside
Maria’s Christmas Table
Where Dreams Unfold
Where Dreams Are Written
Dieties Anonymous
Cookbook from Hell: Reheated
Saviors 101
Thrillers
Swap Out!
One Chef!
Two Chef!
SF/F Titles
Nara
Monk’s Maze