Sometimes, Christmas is exactly what you need.For seven years, Maria Fernanda "e;Freddie"e; Ortiz has been keeping one very inconvenient secret.She's hopelessly in love with her best friend.Freddie fell for Ceban O'Connell somewhere around Civics 102 and never quite managed to fall back out. But Ceban doesn't do love, relationships, or anything resembling forever, so Freddie did the sensible thing: buried her feelings and protected the friendship that mattered more than anything.Then Ceban suggested they add benefits.No strings. No expectations. No changing what they already had.Freddie knew better.She said yes anyway.For a while, she convinced herself that having part of him was better than having none of him. Until stolen nights started feeling too much like everything she'd secretly wanted—and waking up the next morning pretending they meant nothing became more than she could bear.Now Christmas is here, and Freddie is done settling for half of the man she's loved for seven years.What she doesn't know is that Ceban's precious no-strings arrangement hasn't exactly gone according to plan either. Somewhere between friendship and benefits, Freddie stopped being the woman he could never risk losing...and became the woman he can't imagine living without.This Christmas, one of them is finally going to have to say it.Because Freddie has only one wish left:All of him—or none of him at all.  For a full list of content levels, please visit the author's official website.

Sometimes, Christmas is exactly what you need.For seven years, Maria Fernanda "e;Freddie"e; Ortiz has been keeping one very inconvenient secret.She's hopelessly in love with her best friend.Freddie fell for Ceban O'Connell somewhere around Civics 102 and never quite managed to fall back out. But Ceban doesn't do love, relationships, or anything resembling forever, so Freddie did the sensible thing: buried her feelings and protected the friendship that mattered more than anything.Then Ceban suggested they add benefits.No strings. No expectations. No changing what they already had.Freddie knew better.She said yes anyway.For a while, she convinced herself that having part of him was better than having none of him. Until stolen nights started feeling too much like everything she'd secretly wanted—and waking up the next morning pretending they meant nothing became more than she could bear.Now Christmas is here, and Freddie is done settling for half of the man she's loved for seven years.What she doesn't know is that Ceban's precious no-strings arrangement hasn't exactly gone according to plan either. Somewhere between friendship and benefits, Freddie stopped being the woman he could never risk losing...and became the woman he can't imagine living without.This Christmas, one of them is finally going to have to say it.Because Freddie has only one wish left:All of him—or none of him at all.  For a full list of content levels, please visit the author's official website.

Sometimes, Christmas is exactly what you need.For seven years, Maria Fernanda "e;Freddie"e; Ortiz has been keeping one very inconvenient secret.She's hopelessly in love with her best friend.Freddie fell for Ceban O'Connell somewhere around Civics 102 and never quite managed to fall back out. But Ceban doesn't do love, relationships, or anything resembling forever, so Freddie did the sensible thing: buried her feelings and protected the friendship that mattered more than anything.Then Ceban suggested they add benefits.No strings. No expectations. No changing what they already had.Freddie knew better.She said yes anyway.For a while, she convinced herself that having part of him was better than having none of him. Until stolen nights started feeling too much like everything she'd secretly wanted—and waking up the next morning pretending they meant nothing became more than she could bear.Now Christmas is here, and Freddie is done settling for half of the man she's loved for seven years.What she doesn't know is that Ceban's precious no-strings arrangement hasn't exactly gone according to plan either. Somewhere between friendship and benefits, Freddie stopped being the woman he could never risk losing...and became the woman he can't imagine living without.This Christmas, one of them is finally going to have to say it.Because Freddie has only one wish left:All of him—or none of him at all.  For a full list of content levels, please visit the author's official website.