be fun if we did themes and we could play it all year.”
“Ren,” I mumbled, teary again. “This is the most beautiful gift I’ve ever got.”
“You like it?” he asked.
“I love it. God, I love it so much. It’s perfect.” I leaned over and kissed him. “I love you.”
He finally smiled. “It’s not as good as your gift. I can’t believe you’re staying. Haims, that’s . . . that’s the best gift ever. You just made me the happiest man in America.”
I picked up a piece of wooden mistletoe. “Now we get to really play tic-tac-mistletoe.” I held it above my head and he gave me a smiley kiss.
Then he whispered, “I left one pouch at home. It has peach and eggplant pieces, like the emojis . . .”
I burst out laughing. “I’m the peach, right? You know I will let you win deliberately when we play that.”
He grinned and looked over the paperwork for my application to stay in America. “You’re really staying?”
“I’m home here,” I replied. “With you and Chutney in Hartbridge. It’s where I belong.”
Ren wiped away a tear and laughed, embarrassed. “Merry Christmas to me.” Then he chewed on his lip. “You know what else would let you stay here?” He met my eyes. “If we got married.”
Liv gasped, and I put my hand to my mouth, trying not to freak out, but my heart almost exploded in my chest. Ren took one of the pouches and fished out a sparkly rainbow O piece and held it up. “These are the rainbow pieces for Pride month,” he said and took my hand. “I honestly hadn’t planned to do this, but God, this feels so right. Hamish, will you marry me?”
I nodded, crying, blubbering like David in Schitt’s Creek, season five, episode thirteen.
You know the one.
Ren slipped the glittery rainbow tic-tac-toe piece onto my ring finger, and he kissed me. A teary, snot-sobbing kiss, and then we were being hugged and cried all over, and it was, without a doubt, the best day of my life.
“Merry Christmas to me,” I blubbered.
Ren pulled me against him, kissing the side of my head and holding me tight. “Merry Christmas to us.”
The Merry End
About the Author
N.R. Walker is an Australian author, who loves her genre of gay romance. She loves writing and spends far too much time doing it, but wouldn’t have it any other way.
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She is many things: a mother, a wife, a sister, a writer. She has pretty, pretty boys who live in her head, who don’t let her sleep at night unless she gives them life with words.
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She likes it when they do dirty, dirty things… but likes it even more when they fall in love.
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She used to think having people in her head talking to her was weird, until one day she happened across other writers who told her it was normal.
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She’s been writing ever since…
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Also by N.R. Walker
Blind Faith
Through These Eyes (Blind Faith #2)
Blindside: Mark’s Story (Blind Faith #3)
Ten in the Bin
Gay Sex Club Stories 1
Gay Sex Club Stories 2
Point of No Return – Turning Point #1
Breaking Point – Turning Point #2
Starting Point – Turning Point #3
Element of Retrofit – Thomas Elkin Series #1
Clarity of Lines – Thomas Elkin Series #2
Sense of Place – Thomas Elkin Series #3
Taxes and TARDIS
Three’s Company
Red Dirt Heart
Red Dirt Heart 2
Red Dirt Heart 3
Red Dirt Heart 4
Red Dirt Christmas
Cronin’s Key
Cronin’s Key II
Cronin’s Key III
Cronin’s Key IV - Kennard’s Story
Exchange of Hearts
The Spencer Cohen Series, Book One
The Spencer Cohen Series, Book Two
The Spencer Cohen Series, Book Three
The Spencer Cohen Series, Yanni’s Story
Blood & Milk
The Weight Of It All
A Very Henry Christmas (The Weight of It All 1.5)
Perfect Catch
Switched
Imago
Imagines
Red Dirt Heart Imago
On Davis Row
Finders Keepers
Evolved
Galaxies and Oceans
Private Charter
Nova Praetorian
A Soldier’s Wish
Upside Down
The Hate You Drink
Sir
Tallowwood
Reindeer Games
The Dichotomy of Angels
Throwing Hearts
Pieces of You - Missing Pieces #1
Pieces of Me - Missing Pieces #2
Pieces of Us - Missing Pieces #3
Lacuna
Titles in Audio:
Cronin’s Key
Cronin’s Key II
Cronin’s Key III
Red Dirt Heart
Red Dirt Heart 2
Red Dirt Heart 3
Red Dirt Heart 4
The Weight Of It All
Switched
Point of No Return
Breaking Point
Starting Point
Spencer Cohen Book One
Spencer Cohen Book Two
Spencer Cohen Book Three
Yanni’s Story
On Davis Row
Evolved
Elements of Retrofit
Clarity of Lines
Sense of Place
Blind Faith
Through These Eyes
Blindside
Finders Keepers
Galaxies and Oceans
Nova Praetorian
Upside Down
Sir
Tallowwood
Imago
Throwing Hearts
Sixty Five Hours
Taxes and TARDIS
The Dichotomy of Angels
The Hate You Drink
Pieces of You
Pieces of Me
Pieces of Us
Free Reads:
Sixty Five Hours
Learning to Feel
His Grandfather’s Watch (And The Story of Billy and Hale)
The Twelfth of Never (Blind Faith 3.5)
Twelve Days of Christmas (Sixty Five Hours Christmas)
Best of Both Worlds
Translated Titles:
Fiducia Cieca (Italian translation of Blind Faith)
Attraverso Questi Occhi (Italian translation of Through These Eyes)
Preso alla Sprovvista (Italian translation of Blindside)
Il giorno del Mai (Italian translation of Blind Faith 3.5)
Cuore di Terra Rossa (Italian translation of Red Dirt Heart)
Cuore di Terra Rossa 2 (Italian translation of Red Dirt Heart 2)
Cuore di Terra Rossa 3 (Italian translation of Red Dirt Heart 3)
Cuore di Terra Rossa 4 (Italian translation of Red Dirt Heart 4)
Natale di terra rossa (Red dirt Christmas)
Intervento di Retrofit (Italian translation of Elements of Retrofit)
A Chiare Linee (Italian translation of Clarity of Lines)
Senso D’appartenenza (Italian translation of Sense of Place)
Spencer Cohen 1 Serie: Spencer Cohen
Spencer Cohen 2 Serie: Spencer Cohen
Spencer Cohen 3 Serie: Spencer Cohen
Spencer Cohen 4 Serie: Yanni’s Story
Punto di non Ritorno (Italian translation of Point of No Return)
Punto di Rottura (Italian translation of Breaking Point)
Punto di Partenza (Italian translation of Starting Point)
Imago (Italian translation of Imago)
Il desiderio di un soldato (Italian translation of A Soldier’s Wish)
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Confiance Aveugle (French translation of Blind Faith)
A travers ces yeux: Confiance Aveugle 2 (French translation of Through These Eyes)
Aveugle: Confiance Aveugle 3 (French translation of Blindside)
À Jamais (French translation of Blind Faith 3.5)
Cronin’s Key (French translation)
Cronin’s Key II (French translation)
Au Coeur de Sutton Station (French translation of Red Dirt Heart)
Partir ou rester (French translation of Red Dirt Heart 2)
Faire Face (French translation of Red Dirt Heart 3)
Trouver sa Place (French translation of Red Dirt Heart 4)
Le Poids de Sentiments (French translation of The Weight of It All)
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Lodernde Erde (German translation of Red Dirt Heart)
Flammende Erde 2 (German translation of Red Dirt Heart 2)
Vier Pfoten und ein bisschen Zufall (German translation of Finders Keepers)
Ein Kleines bisschen Versuchung (German translation of The Weight of It All)
Ein Kleines Bisschen Fur Immer (German translation of A Very Henry Christmas)
Weil Leibe uns immer Bliebt (German translation of Switched)
Drei Herzen eine Leibe (German translation of Three’s Company)
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Sixty Five Hours (Thai translation)
Finders Keepers (Thai translation)