Chapter 124

Two Days to Christmas...

Marie passed her sisters their mugs of coffee and sat across the couch from them in the huge comfy red recliner by the bay window in her living room. Since Christmas fell on a weekend this year, today marked the government holiday. She'd very much needed a day off. Thus, she hadn't bothered with cosmetics or formal clothes. Heck, she wasn't sure she even brushed her hair this morning.

Nefertiti wasted no time and jumped in Marie's lap, kneading her paws.

Sighing, she stroked the cat's long gray and white fur and sipped her coffee. The peppermint mocha creamer she'd picked up last week on a whim hit the spot and was like a chocolate candy cane on her tongue.