Making Christmas Special Again / Their One-Night Christmas Gift

His conscience gave him a sharp kick in the posterior. His emotional baggage shouldn’t be a factor. Normally it wasn’t. Not with the chaos he encountered in A and E every day. And yet…here it was, front and centre. His hypersensitivity did beg the question, did he want Esme to think well of him?

He stuffed his hand through his hair. No need to ponder that one. It was an unequivocal yes. Which meant the next week was going to hoist this festive season up amongst the worst ever.

You could try being nice.

‘Go on, then,’ he said when Esme shot him another look. ‘Give your brother a call.’

And there it was. The first chink in his ‘don’t ask for help’ armour. If you don’t ask, you don’t need. And if you don’t need, you’re never disappointed. It was a little pact he’d made with himself when the Dictator had asked him to put a value on himself the very first Christmas they’d spent together. Turned out the pair of them had disagreed.

It hadn’t been a very nice Christmas.

When Esme’s smile of thanks hit him on full beam, he began to wonder if his pact had flaws.

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