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  Janice

  He stood up and walked over to me, drawing me into his arms. “Come sit, sydämeni. I have more to tell you.”

  “Okay,” I said hesitantly, and taking his hand, I moved to the couch and sat down.

  He sat down next to me, a smile on his lips. He took both my hands and kissed my fingers. “Sydämeni, I asked you what you would do if any of the legends were true. I asked, because my family is the reason one of the legends exist. Your answer that you would consider the impact on how it effected us, and the world, told me that I could trust you with this. I want to trust you, sydämeni, because I feel a connection to you. Not just that, I’ve fallen for you and I want you to be a part of my life.”

  I smiled and raised a hand to his face. “I’ve fallen for you too. I don’t know how, I tried really hard not to, but you’ve broken down all my walls and found a way into my heart. Oskar, I don’t think I’ve ever felt this way about anyone before.” I bit my lip and took a breath to ask him more about what legend he meant, but then he leaned forward and captured my lips in a passionate kiss and all thoughts of legends flew out of my mind.

  He pulled me into his lap again and I straddled his legs. His hands were on my waist beneath my sweater and skimming upwards, and I decided to be a little reckless and pulled the sweater up and over my head. He drew in a sharp breath and grinned.

  “You are beautiful, sydämeni.” He kissed my neck and he lifted me up as he stood, he carried me to my bedroom. “You are okay with this, sydämeni?” he whispered before setting me on the bed.

  I looked up at him and nodded. “Yes, Oskar,” I murmured, unbuttoning my jeans as I kicked off my shoes and scooted back on the bed.

  He grinned and pulled his sweater off over his head. His broad chest was covered in soft blond curls and I reached a hand out to touch him as he came down over me, kissing me again. He kissed my neck, down to the valley between my breasts as he reached behind me and undid my bra. Slowly, he drew it down my arms, and then captured my nipple in his mouth, laving it with his tongue. He gave the other the same attention as he slid my jeans down my legs and pushed them to the floor with his foot. “So beautiful,” he murmured, kissing his way down my stomach. He teased me, kissing all along the edge of my panties, and then licked me through the silk. With a grin, he slid them down and I pulled my legs out of them.

  I could hardly breath as he pressed a kiss to my heated core. My fingers gripped the quilt beneath us in fists as his tongue touched me intimately and I practically orgasmed right then! I would have too, if he hadn’t immediately drawn back and grinned. My breath caught in my throat as he did it again, and I cried out in frustration. He chuckled, I could feel the rumble of his chest against my legs. Finally he licked me again, and then suckled my clit and I exploded.

  “Oskar!” I screamed his name as I melted all over his tongue.

  He drew back a moment later, a smile on his face as he shoved his jeans from his hips along with his boxers. I drew in a sharp breath at the size of him. He picked up his jeans, pulled out a condom, and slid it over his length as I watched him with hooded eyes. He moved slowly, coming over the top of me. “Niin erittäin kaunis, sydämeni. En voi uskoa, että olet minun,” he whispered huskily.

  I smiled. “What did you say?”

  He blushed. “I said, ‘So very beautiful, my heart. I can't believe you are mine.’” He brushed a loose hair from my forehead and kissed me again. “You’re sure?”

  “I’m sure, Oskar,” I replied.

  He lifted up a little and then slid into me. He filled me completely and then began to move slowly, pulling out and thrusting back, filling me to the brink. I reached up and slid my fingers into his hair and drew his lips to mine, kissing him passionately. A few minutes later, he had me on the edge of oblivion and then he pushed me over and I floated in the sea of extasy. He drew me back several times only to push me over that edge again and again. I was a puddle of goo beneath him, as he had me melting continuously.

  “Oskar,” I moaned, loving the feel of him filling me.

  “Sydämeni, you are so beautiful when you come,” he whispered. “Come for me again so that I might join you?”

  “Oskar!” I shouted a moment later, as we both came, shuddering in each other’s arms.

  He spun us, so he wouldn’t crush me beneath his weight, and I laid on his chest with him still in me. He kissed my forehead, breathing hard. “Have I told you how amazing you are, sydämeni?”

  I smiled against his chest. “Nope, I don’t think you have.”

  His chest rumbled beneath my cheek as he laughed. “You are amazing. Wonderful, kind, smart, beautiful, funny, and I have fallen even deeper for you, sydämeni. I’m so deep in, I don’t think I can ever get out, not that I want to. You own my heart, rakkaani.”

  I smiled against his chest. “That’s a new one…”

  He chuckled again. “My love.”

  I turned my head, planting my chin on my hand and stared into his face. “Do I? Am I?” I asked.

  He nodded. “You do, and you are. Are you okay with that?” he asked, arching a brow.

  I took a breath and smiled. “I think I am,” I said softly.

  Chapter Fourteen

  Oskar

  I woke up with Janice in my arms to a strange sound coming from outside. The room was dark and slightly chilled because we’d let the fire get low. I gently slid from the bed and moved to fix up the fire. As I replaced the screen, I heard it again. The strange sound coming from outside. I peered out the window but couldn’t see anything. Frowning, I moved closer for a better look. In the dim light, I could see a body, laying in a heap, half buried by the snow.

  Damn it. I thought. What is that idiot doing now? I half wanted to leave him there to freeze, but I knew that would be wrong, so I gently shook Janice awake and got dressed. “Rakkaani, we have a problem.”

  Janice blinked at me. “Problem? The only problem I see, Oskar, is that you have too many clothes on.”

  I chuckled. “Not right now, rakkaani, your colleague has managed to get himself into trouble.”

  “Carl?” she asked, blinking.

  “No,” I shook my head, “Mike. He’s half buried in the snow outside your window.”

  She followed my gaze to the window. Standing up wrapped in a sheet, she moved over to the window and looked out. “That dumbass, doesn’t he know he could catch hypothermia out there?”

  “With the way that tree branch is hanging, I think he’s fallen. He may have hit his head.”

  “Well, crap.” She frowned. “I’ll get dressed.”

  A few minutes later, the two of us trudged around to the back of the cabin and lifted Mike out of the snow. He was unconscious, but I could tell that he had been out there for a while. We needed to get him to the hospital as quickly as possible.

  “Rakkaani, do you trust me?”

  She looked at me for a moment and then nodded. “I do, Oskar. Why?”

  “We need to get him to the hospital, or I fear he’s going to die. I can get us there faster than a car, but you have to trust me and not scream.”

  “Okay…?” she said hesitantly.

  I leaned in and kissed her. “Remember, don’t scream.” I shifted Mike into her arms and stepped back.

  She nodded as she held Mike up under his arms. “I won’t.”

  I stepped back a little further from her, and allowed the magic to drop, and then completely shifted to my reindeer form. I was slightly larger than a regular buck, and I looked over at her. I hadn’t heard her scream, but she did look a bit gobsmacked at the sight of me.

  “Oh. My. God. Oskar!” she breathed out, a look of amazement on her face.

  I nudged her, and lowered to my knees, so she could put Mike over my back and then climb on. Once she was on, holding Mike in place and onto my neck with her other hand, I rose up, turned and ran forward, down the slope and then launched us into the air.

  “Oskar!” she gasped out, holding onto my neck for dear life. �
�Can you talk to me like this?” she asked.

  While I could hear her, I had no way to answer her in English. I shook my head in the negative, hoping she understood.

  “Okay, but we are so talking about this when we get to the hospital. Well, after Mike is seen. But then you are telling me everything!” She laughed.

  I gave a reindeer bark and headed to the hospital as quickly as I could. A few minutes later, we landed off to the side of the hospital building quietly. I knelt down and let her off. She pulled Mike off of me and I shifted back to my half Human form and then pulled up the rest of the magic that made me completely Human.

  “Are we okay, rakkaani?” I asked, looking at her with worry.

  She smiled. “We are. We’re going to talk about it, but right now let’s get Mike inside.”

  I nodded and picked him up, cradling him like a child. We moved around the side of the building and to the front emergency room entrance. Once we were inside, I headed for the front desk.

  “He’s had a spill. We found him unconscious in the snow, I think he may have hypothermia,” I said in Finnish to the woman behind the counter.

  She called for a gurney and nurses and I set him down on a bed. She asked for his information and I looked at Janice and then back to the nurse. I explained he was American and asked if she spoke English.

  “I do,” she said.

  “She needs Mike’s information, rakkaani,” I said looking at her.

  “Oh, um his name is Mike Mills, he’s from Cincinnati, Ohio, but lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, he’s twenty-seven, ummm, I don’t know his birthday… I don’t know much else,” she said with a frown.

  “Does he have a contact number for emergencies?” the nurse asked.

  “Um, probably, in his phone, but I don’t know where that is.”

  “Okay, we will try to get him stabilized and maybe when he wakes up, we’ll ask him who to call,” she said with a smile. “You wait over there,” she said, pointing to the waiting room.

  Nodding, I took Janice’s hand and we headed to the empty waiting room. “Do you want a coffee?” I asked.

  She nodded. “Yes, please.”

  I got up and made us each a cup and then brought it over to her. “So. You know my secret, rakkaani.”

  She took a sip and looked at me.

  “I imagine you have questions?”

  She nodded. “I need a minute,” she said and held her hand out for me.

  I took her hand and waited for her to decide what to ask. I sipped my coffee, and after about five minutes she squeezed my fingers and smiled at me.

  “Okay. So first, are there more of you?”

  I nodded. “There are around two hundred of us.”

  “What are you exactly?” she asked. “You’ve got like three forms that I counted, are there more?” Her words were soft so she wouldn’t be overheard by any of the hospital staff.

  “We are the Reilendeer. We come from the planet Reilend about three galaxies away. I was born here on Earth. Our planet was shared with another race, a barbaric race. My father, the king of our people, decided to take our clan and find a new planet on which to live. He chose Earth because of the reindeer. We could blend until we were able to build a new place for us to live.”

  “When? How long have your people been here?” she asked.

  “Over a thousand years.” I smiled. “My people built a settlement, a village, underground. I will show you, rakkaani, if… if you still wish to be with me.”

  She reached a hand out and cupped my cheek. “I do,” she said with a smile. “Do not doubt that, Oskar.”

  I pulled her hand to my lips and kissed it. “You asked about my forms, technically I have two, my Human form isn’t exactly real,” I murmured, watching her eyes to make sure she was still okay with what I was saying.

  “But…”

  I chuckled. “The partial form you saw, that is our true forms. We share compatible genes with the Humans, and for the most part, we resemble Humans, only we have antlers and reindeer ears, hips, and legs.”

  “Uh…” Her eyes got wide and then lowered to my jeans.

  I struggled not to laugh. “That part’s Human.”

  She nodded and blushed before looking away. “So… if your father is the king and he brought you all here, um… he must be really old?”

  “He’s twelve hundred this year.”

  She blinked, her eyes shooting to mine. “How old are you?” she asked.

  “Well, my driver’s license says I’m thirty…” I answered and her eyes narrowed. “Right… I’m two hundred,” I murmured, hoping that didn’t make her decide to up and leave me.

  She nodded. “Okay. Like dating a vampire…” she said and then she frowned. “If… Oskar, are you going to stay this young while I age and die?”

  “No. We have a few scientists who have been working on the problem for a really long time. You see we’ve tried to connect with Humans before, before we realized that Humans don’t match us in longevity. There have been many issues over the years. My brothers were killed by hunters while in reindeer form before we understood what guns were, and then many of our females became susceptible to a plague, while the males survived. We’ve got the technology to keep you young and healthy now, but we weren’t able to save most of the women of our clan. There are only about two hundred of us Reilendeers left.”

  She gripped my hand. “I’m so sorry, Oskar.”

  “I never knew my brothers, but I do miss my mother.” I smiled. “Our scientists are very good. You will always be as beautiful as you are now, rakkaani,” I assured her.

  She giggled. “It’s not exactly my looks I’m worried about, Oskar. It was just the growing old part while you stayed young. And how does that work with the people of Joulupukki?”

  I grinned. “Well, the people of Joulupukki aren’t exactly Human either, rakkaani.”

  Her eyes grew big. “What?”

  “We’ll discuss that later, for now, here comes the doctor.”

  She shut her mouth and nodded.

  “You are here for Mike Mills?” he asked.

  “We are,” Janice said standing up. “How is he?”

  “He’ll be all right, we were able to get him stabilized. I don’t think he was out in the snow as long as you thought, though he was pretty soused. We’ve treated him for mild hypothermia, and potential alcohol poisoning, as well as a cut on his head. He will be able to keep all his fingers and toes, though they may be stiff for a while. While he wasn’t poisoned, it was a very near thing with how much he drank. I highly recommend that he not be allowed to drink anymore.”

  “Okay,” Janice said and then looked at me.

  “We’ll do what we can to keep him from the drinking, doctor.”

  “Good. He should be ready to leave by tonight, once we get some more fluids into him and his system cleaned out.”

  “Can we see him?”

  “He’s sedated, and probably will be for a while. I would just let him sleep.”

  “Okay, thank you, doctor,” I replied.

  When the doctor left, I took Janice’s hand and said, “Why don’t we go back to Joulupukki, we can pick up your vehicle and drive back here to get him, rakkaani.”

  She smiled and nodded. “That’s a good plan.”

  Chapter Fifteen

  Janice

  I walked with Oskar back to the side of the building and he shifted again to his reindeer form. It was an amazing sight and I was thrilled that he had shared this with me. Part of me was still stunned, but the other part of me was worried. I didn’t want to reveal the Reilendeers’ existence to the world. I knew what Humans would do if they discovered them. They’d been on our planet for centuries and had yet to be exposed, that was an amazing feat in itself! And then to think that the people of Joulupukki weren’t all Human either! I had to wonder what they could be.

  Then I recalled thinking of Sven as a Gnome when I first met him and wondered if maybe he was. I’d have to ask Oskar when we la
nded, and he shifted back. We were nearly there, I could see the resort now from our position in the sky. I hoped everyone was still asleep and no one noticed us in the sky. Oskar landed on the edge of the forest and I slid from his back. He shifted back and smiled at me.

  “I guess we walk from here?” I said, grinning and holding out my hand.

  He nodded. “I think that would be best, it’s not too far, but I worried that more people would be awake and moving about the resort.”

  “I had worried about that too. So you said the people of Joulupukki weren’t all Human either, and I remembered thinking Sven reminded me of a Gnome… is he?”

  “Good guess, he is actually. Many of the others you’ve met are actually shifters as well. Arctic fox shifters.”

  “Wow. Are there others around the world?”

  Oskar shrugged. “I don’t know, maybe. The Arctic foxes have been here since before we were. Sven too has been here since forever. I have no idea why he and his brothers chose Finland to settle in, most of their kin are in Ireland. The Gnomes mostly keep to the resort, the cook at the tavern is one of them, so is the cleaning staff.”

  I shook my head, trying to wrap my brain around all of it.

  “So, are you going to keep our secret?” he asked anxiously.

  I looked over at him and smiled. “Of course, I am. Your people have been here longer than my country has been a country! I won’t be the one to expose you all to the Humans.”

  Oskar stopped and pulled me into his embrace, and then kissed me. I slid my hands up his chest and around his neck, enjoying the kiss. When he broke the kiss, he said, “Thank you.”

  “We should check on Smoochy and then maybe have some breakfast. How long of a drive is it to that hospital?” I asked.

  “About forty minutes. It’s just over in Sodankylä.”

  “Wow, then we really made good time with you flying us there.” I grinned as we reached my cabin. I unlocked the door and said, “Smooches we’re back, where are you, baby?”

  Smoochy came running out of the bedroom and wove through both our legs, rubbing against Oskar as if he’d always done so.