A Navesink Bank Christmas Read online

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Dearest Reader

  - Reign & Summer

  Reign & Summer

  Reign

  - Cash & Lo

  Cash & Lo

  Lo

  - Wolf & Janie

  Wolf & Janie

  Janie

  - Breaker & Alex

  Breaker & Alex

  Breaker

  - Paine & Elsie

  Paine & Elsie

  Elsie

  - DON'T FORGET!

  dont forget

  - ALSO BY JESSICA GADZIALA

  also by jessica gadziala

  - ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  about the author

  - STALK HER!

  stalk her

  Contents

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Dearest Reader

  - Reign & Summer

  Reign & Summer

  Reign

  - Cash & Lo

  Cash & Lo

  Lo

  - Wolf & Janie

  Wolf & Janie

  Janie

  - Breaker & Alex

  Breaker & Alex

  Breaker

  - Paine & Elsie

  Paine & Elsie

  Elsie

  - DON'T FORGET!

  dont forget

  - ALSO BY JESSICA GADZIALA

  also by jessica gadziala

  - ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  about the author

  - STALK HER!

  stalk her

  A

  Navesink

  Bank

  Christmas

  -

  Jessica Gadziala

  Copyright © 2017 Jessica Gadziala

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  "This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the writer's imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental."

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  DEDICATION

  All Christmas books go to my mother,

  who taught me the love of the season.

  She made my house look like Christmas threw up all over it.

  And I love it.

  <3

  Dearest Reader,

  I never had the urge to revisit my old stories before. Once done, they felt, well, like a closed book to me. But there has been a gentle urging (or outright begging!) from many of you for a peek into the lives of your old favorites, and this season, as I tried to figure out what novella to put out for Christmas since my original plan of a Christmas trio could not happen thanks to too busy of a schedule, your kind words and encouragement came flooding back to me.

  Then just like that, I wanted to revisit too! I wanted to see Reign and Summer celebrate their first Christmas. I wanted to see a certain couple break in the skirt under the tree. I wanted to see what gifts our heroes got our heroines.

  I wanted to see the season through all their eyes.

  So at the end of October, with witch leggings on, candy corn lights on my front trees, and pumpkins on my front porch, I dreamed of snow-covered driveways, and sneaking less-than-PC-kisses under the mistletoe, and old, comforting carols humming from the lips of loved ones.

  Then I curled up to start work on what you are now holding in your hands.

  Transported back in time, I find myself more nostalgic than I have been in a good, long time. These are the couples we fell in love with years ago, who still hold such a place in our hearts. I wrote them with the words of "Auld Lang Syne" in my head. The rough interpretation meaning "Times Gone By."

  I hope you will raise a cup of kindness yet with me for these times gone by, but never, ever forgotten.

  And I wish for you all to have a joyful holiday season and a blessed New Year.

  - Jessica

  Reign & Summer

  Reign

  &

  Summer

  _

  "Sing In Exaltation"

  Reign

  "O, come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant..."

  Summer's voice filtered through the house, dragging me out of bed after feeling the cool spot beside me. We had gone to bed together, but the space beside me said she had been away for a good, long while already.

  I sat up, checking the alarm clock.

  Five in the morning.

  Now, I was an early riser.

  Summer? Not so much.

  Not at fuckin' all actually.

  She once whacked me in the face with one of her fancy ass throw pillows she insisted we keep on the bed when I woke her up before seven.

  My feet hit the cool floor as I rose up, the chill in the rest of the house suggesting she had the fireplace or oven on. Or, knowing her, both.

  What could I say?

  Summer dove headfirst into Christmas like a child with a Sharpie looking through a fuckin' Toys R Us catalog.

  It was serious business.

  I had stopped asking why she needed so many strands of lights sometime after the sixth trip back to the store to get more. I, apparently, just didn't get the concept of blind spots. And how some of the lights had to be solid, while a few others blinked. But only slowly. Only like tired eyes. Otherwise, it wasn't relaxing, it was agitating.

  Summer had all kinds of theories on these things.

  Me, well, I hadn't had a proper Christmas since my mother died when I was a kid.

  What did I know?

  So I just sat back and watched her spend three hours stringing lights on the tree she had made an appointment for us to go and chop down.

  "Star or angel?" she had asked when she was done, turning back to me with one in each hand, both still in the package.

  And, I dunno what the fuck came over me, because no one who had ever met me could ever accuse me of being sappy or sentimental or, hell, even sweet.

  But standing there, twinkling lights behind her, setting her brilliant red hair even more on fire, cheeks flushed from the fire she insisted on starting, little bell earrings hanging from her ears, yeah, I guess it just brought it out of me.

  "Already got an angel, babe."

  Her eyes did that melting thing then, too, making me wonder if maybe the urge to be sappy should be one I shouldn't fight so much.

  Melting Summer was second only to turned-on Summer.

  "Oh, sing, choirs of angels. Sing in exaltation..."

  "Babe, the fuck you doin'?" I asked, moving out into the edge of the hallway, seeing her in the kitchen.

  Or, what used to be the kitchen.

  Now, well, it looked like about five-dozen bakeries had exploded across the entire space.

  I was pretty sure I didn't own a cookie sheet.

  And yet there were at least ten of them around her, some stacked haphazardly on things like the top of the microwave and one precariously perched on the top of the coffee machine.

  From across the room, I couldn't see what kind of cookies they were, and the entire house smelled like sugar, chocolate, peanut butter, and gingerbread.

  "Oh! Did I wake you up?" she asked, turning with an apologetic look, a long stripe of flour across her cheek, and something red on the tip of her nose.

  Fuckin' cut
est thing I think I had ever seen.

  Cute?

  The fuck?

  I was losing it.

  But watching Summer there in my kitchen in candy cane pajamas and a shirt that said Naughty Is Not An Option, I was pretty sure that if this was losing it, I never wanted to find it.

  "Did you sleep?" I asked, moving closer, seeing bits of flour, sugar, brown sugar, butter, and egg strewn all over the counters.

  Summer was a lot of things. A 'clean as you go' cook was not one of them.

  "I got a few hours," she told me, turning to open the oven, bending over to look in, giving me a too-good glimpse of her round, perfect ass.

  Even in candy cane print, it was a sexy fucking thing to find in your kitchen at five a.m.

  "And then you had a sudden, pressing need to bake eight-dozen cookies?"

  She turned her head over her shoulder at me, smirk pulling up those perfect lips of hers. "Do you remember what happened when I made those turkey-shaped sugar cookies for Thanksgiving?"

  She meant when she made two dozen of them, and the men leaped on them as though they hadn't eaten in weeks, leading two grown ass fucking men to get into a fistfight over the last one.

  "See your point," I agreed as she reached for oven mitts, pulling two more trays of what looked to be mint chocolate chip cookies out of the oven, placing them on the top, then moving over to another set, carefully taking the Santa hat shaped sugar cookies off a drying rack, and sliding them into a giant Ziplock bag.

  "I mean, I don't know how many of the men are going to be around on Christmas," she went on, shrugging her small shoulders. "But I figure the older guys who never settled down, and the young guys with no families might be around. I want them to have some cookies too."

  Cookies.

  And the entire extra spread of dinner she planned to make there after we had ours at our place.

  A big heart, this woman had.

  She took in my men as her own as well.

  And not just Cash and Wolf and Repo. Or even just Vin and Shredder.

  No.

  Even the ones who rubbed her the wrong way with their misogynist bullshit.

  She cared about them all.

  She wanted them to have a ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and biscuits.

  I had to admit, having had her Thanksgiving spread - mine, Cash's, Wolf's, and Repo's first real once since all of us had been kids, if even then - it was maybe the best gesture she could have extended to them.

  They were all still adjusting to the idea of my old lady being around the club all the time. I could tell she was seeking their approval through their stomachs.

  And, well, she would fuckin' get it that way.

  That was important to her.

  The guys would respect her because they had no fuckin' choice in the matter, but Summer wasn't stupid. She could feel that it was obligation, that it had nothing to do with her.

  And she wanted to change that.

  I couldn't fault her that.

  We spent a lot of time at the clubhouse. And aside from the clubwhores or the occasional drop in from someone else's old lady, she was the only chick around. She wanted to fit in.

  "I don't want anyone getting a bloody nose over a gingerbread man," she told me, holding one up, his hands curled in, holding a red and white striped mint between them.

  "Yeah, babe, but you have six plastic bags full of cookies in the garage for them already."

  Her shoulders shrugged as she turned away. "I've never had so many people to bake for before. Growing up, there were people to do that. The most I ever got to do was cover the cookies in sprinkles. This is fun. Even if my feet are screaming," she said, drawing my attention down to the bright red fluffy slippers with little gold and silver Christmas lights stitched on them.

  I was pretty sure every goddamn thing she wore since December first started had something Christmas-related on it. She was going to need an entire closet to store it all after the season was over.

  I suddenly wondered, as she bent to look into the oven again, if she had slipped into some Christmas panties too.

  I mean, I owed it to her to see them if she went through the trouble, right?

  --

  Summer

  Reign had been a trooper about my holiday craziness. I knew I was going overboard. I guess it was equal parts wanting to have something nice after a rough year. And maybe wanting to make his first Christmas with me something to remember.

  They were important things, weren't they? The first of every holiday? They would be the ones most remembered.

  I wanted all of them to be perfect.

  Christmas especially.

  Because Reign hadn't had a real, genuine Christmas since he was a boy.

  He told me that he and Cash had actually spent last Christmas eating Chinese takeout, drinking, and watching Die Hard.

  Sure, that sounded like an ideal night to most guys. I knew it must have felt lacking, that they must have been thinking - at least in passing - about cookies and home cooked meals and presents.

  No matter how hardened these men might be, not a single one was immune to the appeal of the comforts that they had known growing up, that their mothers had given to them.

  Heaven knew that Reign was a happy man after a good home cooked meal. So happy, in fact, that it usually led to multiple selfish orgasms for me. Sometimes right there in the kitchen, hiked up on the counter as he showed me his gratitude.

  And even if it wasn't for naked gratitude, I just wanted to do it. These men, in such a short period of time, had come to mean so much to me. Not just Reign, though it went without saying that he was my main motivation. But even Cash, Wolf, and Repo, blood and club brothers, they were Reign's family. They were there at the drop of a dime if Reign needed them. It was not, as one might think, just because he was the president, because he was in charge of them. They were just good men. Reign had needed to wrestle the washing machine out of the basement because it stopped working suddenly. The next thing you knew, Cash was showing up with a brand new one, and Wolf was there with an appliance dolly to drag the old one up the stairs.

  These were his people.

  They meant the world to him.

  And, even in just a short period of time, they had come to mean the world to me as well.

  I wanted them all to have a real Christmas at our - it still felt so surreal to say 'our' - house with a full dinner spread, presents, and enough dessert to make you need to undo your top button.

  No Die Hard or Chinese food in sight.

  "Well, baby, if your feet are screamin', maybe it is time to get off of 'em for a bit," Reign said as he advanced on me, a wicked look in his eye I would recognize anywhere.

  Before I could even object, say I had six more batches to get in before I could finally clean up and start food prep for dinner, he was right in front of me, hands going under my knees and yanking up, making me screech and grab frantically for his arms to hold on as he settled me up by his waist, letting my legs fold around his lower back before walking me a few feet across the kitchen to slam me back against the wall.

  "Reign, I have so much to do," I half-heartedly objected as his head dipped, his lips finding the soft column of my neck, raking over it with his stubble, something that never failed to make a shiver course through me.

  "Mhm," he agreed, the sound reverberating through him and into me. "And you can do it after I fuck you."

  Well, with logic like that on his side... I guess I just had to go along with it, right?

  One of his hands released my knee, moving up my inner thigh. "Bet you got fuckin' Santa panties on," he said as his teeth nipped my earlobe and pulled.

  "Candy canes," I corrected, smiling when his laugh rumbled through his chest. There was no better sound in the world. Especially when I was the one that brought it out of him.

  "Too fuckin' sweet," he declared right before sealing his lips over mine, kissing me as he most often did - like a branding, like he was
staking his claim, doing so with enough demand and pressure that I was sure to feel him there even long after. I swear I perpetually walked around with swollen lips from his kisses.

  His tongue traced the seam of my lips, demanding entry, as his hand finally pressed down on my cleft through my pants and panties, his whole palm pressing down against me, making me shamelessly shift my hips, grinding down into his touch.

  "Greedy pussy," he declared against my lips, sounding pleased.

  He wasn't wrong.

  I always wanted him.

  I woke up wanting him.

  Even if I had just had him before bed.

  There was no satiating the need my body had with regard to him. I could be completely turned on just watching him walk around collecting his laundry or taking the garbage pails out to the curb or washing dishes after I cooked him dinner. Reign just living his daily life was the sexiest damn thing I had ever seen.

  Add in his bike or him being all commanding around his men and, ah, yeah... let's just say we couldn't walk into that clubhouse without me wanting to jump him.

  He would barely stop addressing his men before I would lean in and ask him to take me to bed.

  Luckily for me, Reign was as into me as I was into him.

  I only got one more stroke before he suddenly yanked away from my hold, making my legs drop, feet hitting the ground just barely a second before he was there, dragging down my pants, leaving my panties, which he looked at for a second, then leveled his eyes up to me, giving me an appreciative smile before moving inward and sucking my clit into his mouth through the thin layer of fabric, making me have to slam my hand down on the top of his head to keep upright as the contact immediately made my legs feel shaky, unsteady.

  He worked me that way for a long minute before seeming to sense my need for more or, knowing Reign, simply wanting to taste me, having claimed on countless occasions that he'd never had anything sweeter.