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CF WHITE – ALL WRAPPED UP
When Christmas is all wrapped up, will Santa still want his playful elf?
Length: 67,000
Series: standalone
Genre: contemporary, holiday/Christmas
“Fancy a bit of elf-pleasure?”
Struggling actor Rick Thornton is on a downward spiral. Once a celebrated stage and screen star, scandal and heartbreak caused the roles to dry up. Persuaded by his agent to take a temp job as Santa at the local mall to get himself back in the game, he’s hit rock bottom.
Budding actor Jayden Collins is fighting to fund his drama school education. With no family to turn to, he’s left alone in his university digs over the Christmas holidays. But he’s landed the best temp job ever—playing the elf at the local mall’s grotto, spreading joy and gifts to the children. Especially as he’ll be starring opposite the Rick Thornton.
But Rick is a cynical, bitter shell of his former self, drowning his sorrows in alcohol and Jayden soon learns the truth behind the saying: never meet your heroes. As complaints stack up, threatening to close the grotto, Jayden and Rick must join forces to keep it open. Along the way, they uncover more about each otherthan meets the eye.
Beneath the glittering wonderland of festivities in London, Jayden and Rick are drawn together by more than just necessity. In each other’s company, they findsolace, understanding, and an unexpected spark of romance, giving them both a newfound hope for the future.
But when Christmas is all wrapped up, will Santa still need his playful little elf?
All Wrapped Up is an Age Gap, Grumpy/Sunshine, Found Family steamy standalone MM holiday romance featuring a washed-up actor spiralling out of control and a care-experienced happy-go-lucky drama student desperate to change his fate.
Rick peered up so his eyes weren’t level with Jayden’s groin. “What are you—”
Jayden straddled him, slipping wide-legged onto his lap and wriggling closer until their chests met. Or more, he squashed his chest into Rick’s fake padding.
“What are you doing?” Rick asked, desperate to slide his hands over green-covered thighs, around slender hips and to the oh so luscious arse straining his onesie suit. But how could he? It would be one step too far. Someone could come in. Believe he was something he wasn’t.
“I’m gonna kiss you.”
“Oh?” Rick’s heart thumped. “You are?”
“Yeah, but I’m contemplating whether to take your beard off.”
“Quite the conundrum.”
“Yeah.”
Rick’s hands circled Jayden’s waist of their own accord. With all rational thought lost and protective reasoning hidden behind layers and layers of padding, Rick dragged Jayden closer to clasp him to his unfortunate stuffing. How could he deny it now? How could he pretend he didn’t want this? Didn’t find Jayden Collins the most striking man he’d ever come across? In and out of the elf suit. Not when he was in his lap. Delightful and inviting. Tempting and teasing. And making the first move. Whether this would ruin him, he couldn’t stop himself from wanting it.
More than he’d wanted anything else in his life.
“I vote for without,” Rick said through trembling lips, warm breath clouding the air between them. “If that aids your decision making.”
Jayden cocked his head. “Could be right.”
Jayden then plucked Santa’s beard under Rick’s chin, the white tails tickling his neck, and gazed at the man beneath. Him. Rick. Jayden smiled, then inched closer, lips puckered. Rick’s heart skipped. Oh, how he wanted that mouth on his. It was going to taste divine. Better than the Chianti. Far better than whisky sorrow. Far, far better than Derek’s, filled with lies and empty promises. Better than anything he’d ever tasted in his life. Because Jayden was inimitable. Matchless. A bright shining star atop the most decorated Christmas tree and shining down on him. Lighting him up.
Giving him his spotlight back.
Brought up in a relatively small town in Hertfordshire, C F White did what most other residents try to do and fail—leave.
She eventually settled for pie and mash, cockles and winkles and a bit of Knees Up Mother Brown to live in the Eastend of London; securing a job and creating a life, a home and a family.
She writes gritty stories about imperfect men falling in love against the odds and is accused of sprinkling a bit of British humour into them from time to time too.
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