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    Kissa Under the Mistletoe
    Kissa Under the Mistletoe
    Kissa Under the Mistletoe
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    Kissa Under the Mistletoe

    By Courtney Sheets

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    Professor Lucas Slate is sexy and smart and can have any woman in the world. What could he possibly want with his size fourteen best friend Kissa Nazir? When he asks her to go with him to London for the Christmas season, she thinks it is friendly moral support. But what she doesn't know is Lucas has other plans in mind for her.

    For five years, Lucas has waited for a chance to show the beautiful bellydancer he can be more than just a friend. Not taking any more chances on Kissa's love, he'll lie if he has to, cheat all the fates, and whisk her away for the holidays. One way or another, Lucas plans to live out his long-awaited fantasy. At the end of this holiday season, he's stealing more than a “Kissa Under the Mistletoe".

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDecadent Publishing
    Release dateDec 2, 2014
    ISBN9781613337677
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      Kissa Under the Mistletoe - Courtney Sheets

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Kissa Under the Mistletoe

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2014 by Courtney Sheets

      ISBN: 978-1-61333-767-7

      Cover Art by Leah Kaye Suttle

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work, in whole or in part, in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      ~Dedication~

      To Rona, for believing in the Nazir Triplets

      Chapter One

      I need a favor, love. His voice was rich and deep, like whiskey wrapped in velvet.

      Kissa shook her head and smiled into the cell phone at her ear, knowing full well she would give him anything he desired. Whatever you need, she said, letting her amusement flavor the words. Christmas was coming, and she had a pretty good idea about the favor he needed. This was a difficult time for him, being so far away from his family in England. She’d bet her favorite vintage handbag he was going to ask to spend the holiday at her house, watching cheesy Christmas movies and eating junk food. With her own family spread out over the globe like a tribe of nomads, Kissa wouldn’t mind having someone around.

      Come to London with me for the holiday.

      She almost dropped her phone in surprise. What the hell are you talking about, Lucas? The words came out sharper than she intended, but his shocking request was a little much for her this early in the morning, the emotion causing her Arabic accent to flare up.

      Calm down. Don’t get all Egyptian princess on me.

      All right. I’m calm. She grinned at his apt comment. Why do you want me to go to London with you? It’s kind of nuts.

      My mum pesters me constantly to come home for the holidays, but I don’t want to face the family alone. I haven’t been back in two years. Mum’s in full guilt swing. Come on, Kissy, you’re my best friend. I need you to protect me.

      Don’t call me, Kissy. I hate it. She heard him sigh into the phone and shook her head again, the laughter no longer present. Why don’t you take Heather or Heidi or whatever the heck her name is?

      "Heather was over three months ago, Kissa. Remember, we marked the occasion by eating a large pepperoni pizza on your couch and you making me watch Bridget Jones’s Diary."

      She could picture him playfully rolling his eyes at her as he did when she did something to annoy him.

      You loved it, and you know it. She laughed, before turning serious once more. I’m not sure I can afford a trip to England right now. Besides, don’t you think it will seem odd to my family if I don’t spend Christmas with them?

      Not to worry, love. We’ll stay at my parents’ home, and my mum will feed us until we explode. As for your parents and your lovely sisters, you can tell them you’re saving me from a fate worse than death, and you’ll see them after Boxing Day. Your mum is a fellow Brit. She’ll understand. He sounded so confident she would say yes.

      What about your classes?

      Winter break. Spring semester doesn’t start until the second week of January. Plenty of time for Christmas in London.

      She’d forgotten all about winter break for Ohio State University. His position as a professor of English Literature and Creative Writing afforded Lucas more flexibility in his schedule. She dug the brainy side of her friend. His academic background lent him an air of sophistication. Kissa loved sitting up nights chatting movies, politics, and the classics with him. Heck, she even enjoyed his rants on books like Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey. But he wasn’t some tweed-covered, stuffy professor. Kissa reckoned at least half of his female students took his class to gaze longingly at his intense jawline and dreamy eyes. She never got tired of teasing him about the coeds who giggled and whispered to each other when she strolled the campus with him.

      London misses you. How long has it been since you’ve been back? Don’t you want to walk Trafalgar with me? The pleading tone in his voice whittle at her defenses.

      Truth be told, her parents would be in Monte Carlo until the New Year, and her sisters would be stuck in their own towns doing their own thing

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