Wolf Novel 42

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Harmony

Her eyes opened to find Garrett right there, sitting on the side of the bed next to her. “Good morning.” He smiled down at her “Did you sleep well?” he asked.

“Mm, I did.” She nodded and stretched out in her bed, “This bed is very comfortable.”

“That’s not why you slept well.” he chuckled softly “Now, I’d kiss you, but that might see me wanting to crawl into your bed and well…” he smirked at her “We’ll miss breakfast and my

mother will hunt me down with a vengeance. She actually has a master key to every room in

the building.”

She watched him stand up. “Your clothes for the day.” He tapped them, they were sitting on

the end of her bed. “I’ll step out and wait for you in the hallway.”

“Alright.” She nodded, “Wait, do they know I am here?” she asked, wondering if he’d already seen them this morning or not and just how they would feel about her intruding on their

family’s Christmas Day.

“Yes, my family and the boys.” He nodded.

“Boys?” she questioned. He kept saying that.

“Mm, Wyatt, Ryan and Dallas.” Garrett nodded. “We’re not just co–workers, we are all really good friends, they are my social circle, you’ll see me with them all the time at work and outside of it. Dallas is also married to my little sister Conny.”

“I read something about them being your childhood friends.” She stated, getting out of bed.

His eyes moved over her slowly, and he nodded “They are, I’d better leave the room. You being half naked is gaining my undivided attention. See you five.”

She chuckled as he walked away, even closed the bedroom door as he left. She showered quickly and dressed in the jeans and sweater that he’d left for her, and while she brushed her hair she took a minute to check out the apartment she was in. It was a one–bedroom place, much like her own, only it was bigger and, instead of a combined lounge and kitchen, they were separate, and much larger rooms as well.

It was nicely furnished, with a soft purple rug and cream lounge, a white coffee table and a bowl of purple decorative balls in a large bowl, but she could also detect they had a scent coming off them, picked one up and smelled it, smiled to herself they had a lavender scent to

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them.

There was a large picture of purple bellflowers on the wall behind the lounge, the place was

very nice. Simple, clean lines and neat and tidy. She stepped out of the room to find Garrett

right there waiting for her. He smiled at her and leaned off the wall, “They’re a good fit. Not too tight or loose.”

“Comfortable.” Harmony nodded. “How I like my clothes to be honest. Thank you for getting

them.”

“All good, sorry they’re not brand new, they were all I could do on such short notice.” He motioned for her to walk down the hall, and she fell into step with him as he walked.

“It’s fine. I wasn’t expecting new clothes.”

“Now, I will behave today, and keep my hands to myself.” he murmured softly.

“Good.” She nodded.

She could see many people down in the apartment building foyer, and as they walked down the stairs many of them smiled and greeted Garrett warmly, with a happy “Merry Christmas,

Garrett.”

He greeted each of them back in the same manner, and introduced her to a few of them that she’d never seen before. Most smiled at her and nodded; said a polite hello, a few stared from her to Garrett and back. She watched him wave them off. “You’ll get a bit of that. Just ignore

it.”

She just nodded, she supposed if he never dated, walking around with a woman next to him was going to draw attention to them both. They walked down a long hallway and turned a corner, and he pushed open a door and ushered her into a what she could only think of was a large restaurant.

There were so many people in there and the smell of food was amazing. It made her hungry instantly from all the delicious things she was seeing and smelling, everything lined up on the other side of the room, massive buffet tables with pancakes and waffles, hot breakfast foods, as well as fruits and pre–made breakfast wraps to be toasted.

She was taken over there, and Garrett handed her a plate, “Get whatever you want. All meals

today are on the company.”

“Good, cos I’m starving.” She murmured and collected herself, what appeared to be a Spanish omelette, and she also placed on her plate a bagel with cream cheese and topped with blueberries, and she also picked up a jar layered with muesli, yogurt and fruit. But then, she

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didn’t have a hand free to get coffee, and she could see there was a machine not unlike the one in the office. She heard Garrett chuckle, as she huffed and looked at her hands “You can

come back for the coffee.”

He walked her over to where his family sat and introduced her to those she didn’t know, his

two sisters, and Wyatt and Ryan’s wives. Melody and Anya. She smiled at them all and said.

hello, then she turned to Deidre. “Thank you for letting me be here today, I’m sorry to intrude.

“Intrude?” Deidre stated with a slight frown. “Nonsense, the more, the merrier and I didn’t want

you alone on Christmas Day, which I heard you would be from Wyatt. Welcome to our home.”

She smiled at Harmony.

“This is a lovely restaurant. The best breakfast spread I’ve ever seen.”

Nearly everyone at the table chuckled and Garrett smiled at her. “Not a restaurant, just a

cafeteria for any that want to come in and eat if they don’t feel like cooking, and the food…” he

smiled “Is amazing, I’ve got three of the best chefs around in that kitchen back there.”

“Oh, so like at the office then?” as she cut into that omelette.

“Yes,” he nodded. “There will be food in here all day. If you’re hungry, just come and help

yourself.”

She nodded, “Alright, I might just do that.” She often did eat and drink more in the colder months just trying to keep warm, drank more coffee, or had a cup of soup to warm herself.

“We here in the gated community like to mingle and eat together,” Deidre smiled at her. “We pride ourselves on being friendly and caring, and everyone here knows everyone, we all get

along well.”

“That’s nice.” She nodded, she looked about the room and found Wyatt smiling right at her and recalled he knew about her, the baby she was carrying being Garrett’s, and realized they all likely knew that. They all also knew he was going to ask her out even. Turned her eyes from

him to her plate of food to eat quietly.

She saw many people coming and going, and there were many children running all over the place after breakfast. She got to watch as there was snowman building competition outside the front of the apartment building. It was explained to her that only the children could participate, and there was a prize for the winner, their favourite movie, to be shown on the big screen. Apparently there was movie theatre in the building somewhere.

Many of the people from inside this community sat around and watched, as she herself did. There were a few others from the office that she recognised, they smiled at her, and she waved

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back, walked about and talked to a few of them. Got introduced to husbands and wives, to

their children. It was, she realised, a very lively and community–driven place to live.

A massive lunch was held in that cafeteria. Although she noted there were not many children.

in here now, mostly single, men and women, celebrating together, she could only guess they

didn’t have families to be with for Christmas lunch.

There was one table with children at it and lady sitting with them, watching over them, and it

didn’t take her long to realise they were orphans. Her eyes moved to Deidre “Is there an

orphanage here?”

“Mm.” Deidre nodded as her eyes also moved to the children at that table. They were between,

she thought, eight and seventeen. “They don’t want a new family to live with, so stay willingly in the orphanage. We’d prefer they move in with one of the family’s and be adopted. Many couples have offered to take them in, but they are old enough to choose for themselves.

“That woman over there with them, Tilda, is her name. She runs the orphanage, is single

herself, her husband passed some years back, and they never had any of their own, so she

opts to look after those that need it.”

“I get it.” Harmony nodded “She’s created a family of sorts for herself.” She got up and walked

over there, smiled at the children and sat down, said hello and introduced herself. They were all just staring at her more than curious.

“I’m just like you,” she told them. “Lost my parents four and a half years ago, and I have no brothers or sisters. May I sit with you all for this meal?”

She saw half of them just nod and return to their meal, and the others continued to look at her. One asked “Is it hard to always know you’re alone?” She was a girl of maybe 16.

“It is.” Harmony nodded, wasn’t going to lie to them. “Takes time to start to feel okay. I was lost for a year to my sadness and grief, and then I picked myself up, realising my parents loved me, and would want me to be happy and live my life to the fullest. It’s difficult at first, but gets better with time.” She smiled a little sadly.

“Does it still hurt?” One of the smaller boys asked, and she could see and hear his pain, and

she wondered how recent his loss was.

“Sometimes it does a lot, and other times not so much. I still love and miss them, but I have many wonderful memories to think back on. Let’s see…Oh, my favourite Christmas memory is riding around on my dad’s back.” She chuckled softly “He was pretending to be a horse, and I was kicking him and telling him to giddy up,” she smiled at them, “I got a cowgirl outfit that year but had no horse, my dad became that for me. I was five.”

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She saw a few of them smile at her tale, “Why don’t you tell me your favourite memory?” She encouraged them.

It was a hard day for anyone without family. All the big holidays were and this she had learned. first hand. She’d spend two Christmas Days on her own and she’d found the best way to deal with it was to sit and reminisce about the good, happy and funny memories. It helped to