Chapter Four

“Santa!”

Candy swallowed down her nervousness and smiled up at the cheerfully corpulent chairman of Christmas himself. Larger than life in his exquisite red velvet suit with hand-stitched golden thread and pristine white fur trim, Kris Kringle, aka Santa Claus, looked down at Candy with a benevolent smile on his face.

His crystal blue gaze flicked to the strange male currently trying to push Candy behind his enormous body. Curious behavior. But not bad. Santa adopted an amused expression on his pink-cheeked face, as the man grew protective of the young Christmas Elf.

Interesting…

Of course, that expression soon changed from mild amusement to startled surprise when a very large, very sharp, curved sword—a khopesh, if you wanted to be exact—appeared directly in front of Santa’s cherubic nose. The blade was expertly held by the stranger who, after racking his brain, Santa was certain was, of course, Medjed, the warrior of Osiris.