The Mountain Man’s Secret Santa by Kali Hart

Jewel:
As my grumpy boss, Briggs Carlson, CEO of Carlson Logging Industries, is the bane of my existence.
He’s also the man I’ve secretly been in love with for two years.
When I draw his name for the Secret Santa event, I hope that this year, Santa will give me what I want most for Christmas:
For Briggs to see me as more than his secretary.
For the man I’ve craved to crave me back.
If only he didn’t frustrate me so much with his unexplainable jealousy and Scrooge-like tendencies.
Santa, am I in over my head this year?

Briggs:
Since the day I interviewed Jewel two years ago, I haven’t so much as looked at another woman.
I’m a broken man without a full heart to give.
Which is why I can never have her.
But I don’t like letting her out of my sight.
If I can’t have her, at least I can protect her from a distance.
It’s the way it has to be, and I’ve accepted that.
Until my jealousy gets the best of me one night and I kiss her.
No matter how hard I try to go back to the way things were, I don’t want to.
I want to make her mine.
To get her in my bed and never let her leave.