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 Jason watched as his steady girl-friend, Leigh, walked barefoot across his
kitchen.  He could hardly believe that she was finally his.  They had been
seeing each other for several weeks.  It had taken him a long time to get
her to even consider seeing him.  She had just gotten out of rocky
relationship shortly after he had met her.  She had been very leery of
starting a serious relationship.  But he knew with time she would hopefully
decide to take a chance on them making it last.  He stared at her
thoughtfully.  Christmas was right around the corner and he was hoping that
she would give him the best present in the world.  He wanted her to be his
wife.  At that moment, Leigh turned around and stared at him.

   "What is it?" She asked him as she walked back towards him with two cups
of coffee.

   "Just thinking." He said honestly.  "I'm a happy man." He finished as he
took the cup that she offered to him.  "It's just started to snow and I
have a hot cup of coffee and the woman that I love with me.  Can't get much
better than that."

   "Jason, you have such a way with words.  You know that I don't want to
be any other place." She said softly as she stepped into his arms.  "And I
love you too." She finished as he wrapped his arms around her.



   Leigh felt like she was walking on clouds as she met her friend, Gloria.
They had a planned a shopping date.  It had become quite the ritual for
them to buy their Christmas presents together.

   "I see that life with Jason is sure treating you good." Gloria stated as
they walked through the store.

   "Yes, he makes me happy." Leigh said.  "I keep waiting for the newness
to wear off.  But it still hasn't."

   "I'm glad, sweetheart.  You need a man that is going to treat you right.
Not like that other dick.  He hasn't been bothering you anymore, has he?"

   "No, thank goodness." Leigh said.  "But enough of that.  I've got to
find the perfect gift for Jason.  Any ideas?" She asked her friend.

   "Has he said what he wants?" Gloria asked.

   "No.  He says he has everything that he wants.  He's gonna make it
difficult for me."

   "Well, lets look around and see what we can find." Gloria said.  "Surely
something will pop out at us."

   "If not I guess I could just serve myself on platter." Leigh said
mischievously.

   "You are so bad." Gloria laughed.

   The man watched Leigh and Gloria get into her car.  The bitch had caused
nothing but problems for him and his family.  He would see to it that she
didn't have a Merry Christmas.  But first he had to deal with that big lug
of a boy-friend.

   Leigh woke to the sound of her doorbell ringing.  Frowning, she saw it
was 2:37 by her bedside clock.  Next to her Jason stirred then opened his
eyes.

   "What is it, Minx?" He asked as he pulled her closer.

   "The doorbell." She said as slipped out of his arms and the bed. 
Pulling her robe on she walked down the hall to her front door.  Looking
through the peep hole she didn't see anyone.  Frowning, she unlocked the
door and pulled it open as far as the chain would allow.  Laying on the
doorstep was a furry lump.

   "What is it?" Jason said from behind her.

   "I don't know." Stepping back she let him see.  Undoing the chain he
pulled the door all the way.  Squatting down, he examined it more closely.

   "Leigh, call the police." He said quietly as he straightened.

   "What?"

   "Just do it, Minx.  Some sick bastard, left a mutilated cat on your
doorstep."

   "Oh." Turning she walked back down the hall to the phone.

   After the police left, Leigh sat on the couch with a worried look on her
face.  Jason closed the door, and walked back over to her.  Sitting down
next to her he pulled her into his lap.  Sighing, she curled up even closer
to him.

   "Everything will be alright, Minx."

   "That poor cat." Leigh was very much an animal lover.

   "I know, Minx." Jason said before giving her a slow kiss.  He had meant
it to be just for comfort but as usual the heat that they always generated,
flared up.  She groaned and wrapped her arms around him tightly.  He ran
his hands down her back to cup her bottom and pull her more snugly against
him.  When they finally came up for air, they were both gasping.

   "Minx, I don't want to take advantage..." He started.

   "You're not.  I'm gonna take advantage of you." She replied before
tugging on his earlobe with her teeth.

   "Oh, lord help me." He growled.

   "Not tonight." She said as she reached between them and untied her robe.
Underneath she wore nothing but the heart locket that he had given her.

   "You went to the door like that." He growled before, lifting her breasts
level with his mouth.  "You need to be punished, Minx." Then he pulled one
of her hard tipped breasts into his mouth and started to suck.

   "Oh, I'll have to be bad more often." She gasped as fire raced across
her body to settle in her core.  Wrapping his arms more tightly around her,
he took turns tormenting her breasts.  He knew that he could make her
climax just by playing with her nipples.  They were that sensitive.  But
tonight he didn't feel like letting that happen easily.  He wanted to drive
her crazy.  Just to take her mind off of the shock of earlier.  Leigh
squirmed helplessly in her lover's arms as he teased her relentlessly.

   "Jason," she pleaded.

   "Relax, Minx.  There's no rush." He said softly.

   "Sadist." She groaned as he lifted his head and pushed the robe off her
shoulders.

   "And you are beautiful." He replied cupping his large hands around her
breasts.  As he continued caressing her, she squirmed on top of him.  He
growled in pleasure at the feel of her warm bottom squirming against his
swollen manhood.  He went still, then groaned when she reached between them
and unzipped the jeans that he was wearing.  He had only thrown on his
jeans to follow her, so his manhood sprung out to greet her.

   "I love it when you go without." She whispered as she stroked him.

   "And I love you period." He growled as he pushed her hand away and slid
two fingers through her damp folds and into her warm nest.  She moaned and
arched her hips into his hand.  "Christ, Minx, you are so wet.  I love it."
He growled.

   "Please." She whispered as she felt her orgasm pulling at her.  Pushing
his hand away from her, she took him in hand and placed the head of his
cock at her entrance and pushed down.

   "Slowly." He gasped, always concerned that he might hurt her.

   "No." She gasped and slammed herself down on him, taking him to the
hilt. Her orgasm ripped through her without mercy and she dug her
fingernails into his shoulders.  "YES!" She squealed.

   Jason growled with surprise when her tight little cunt took every inch
of him and then exploded on him.  "Oh Minx," he growled, "now you've asked
for it." Pushing off the couch, he wrapped her legs around him and started
staggering towards the bedroom.  Gritting his teeth, he tried to control
her little squirms long enough to get to her bed.  Leigh was gasping and
moaning softly as each step he took pushed him in out of her in little
nudges.  They had made it as far as her closed door when another orgasm
rushed over Leigh.

   "Oh, please, Jason." She cried as it started.

   "Oh, Hell." he said, when he felt her sheath start gripping his hard
cock.  "You are such a little Minx.  Always coming all over me." Then he
grabbed her hips in his hands and started thrusting hard against her to
intensify her orgasm.  Then he lost it.  Pinning her against her closed
door he thrust his cock in and out of her.

   "Yes!  Give it to me!" She pleaded before pulling his mouth down to
hers. He growled when she slipped her tongue inside of his mouth.  He
yanked his head back and growled as he continued to thrust.  "I want you on
your hands and knees, Minx.  I love being able to play with your nipples
while I pound in and out.  Now.  Right now." He demanded as he pulled out
of her and slid to the floor.  After flipping her over he surged into her
again.  Leigh screamed as he hit deep.  Jason, stilled.  "Are you okay?" He
gasped.

   "No!  Just fuck me." She said as she slammed her bottom back against
him. Letting her head drop between her arms she kept pushing back against
him until he got the point.  Jason looked down and watched his hot little
lover move under him.  No other woman had ever pleased him, had fit him
near as well as this one.  He could feel her tightening around him again.
The little Minx, he thought before he started thrusting again.

   Leigh was in a world of pleasure that she knew that was unique to her
and Jason only.  She was one stroke away from coming again and she knew
that Jason wouldn't be far behind.  She could feel him getting thicker in
her.  When he covered her body with his and took her breasts in his hands,
she knew for sure.  He was such a great lover, he knew all her hot points
to make sure she came with him.  He didn't realize that she was already
there.  With one arm pressing on both of her hard nipples, Jason toyed with
her button of pleasure knowing that he wasn't going to last much longer.

   "Let go, Minx." He pleaded, just before the world exploded around them.

   "Jason!!!" She screamed.  Her orgasm rocked through her lower body and
she nearly bucked him off her in frenzy, if not for the arms he had wrapped
around her.  That was all it took, Jason let out a war cry as he pounded
through her orgasm to reach his own spine tingling one.  When it was all
over they laid tangled together in the hall in front of her bedroom door.

   "Did you get the license plate number?" Jason asked.

   "Of what?" she asked with a smile, as she pushed his damp hair off his
forehead.

   "The truck that hit us." Their laughter filled the hall.



   Leigh was in high spirits the next morning, all things considering.  She
stepped out of the shower to find Jason in his usual spot.  Leaning against
the bathroom sink, holding a cup of coffee.  Taking a drink, he gave her,
their customary morning kiss.  Feeding the coffee to her one sip at a time.
She smiled when he lifted his head.

   "Thank you, sweetheart."

   "No thanks needed, Minx." Jason replied, getting his morning fill of
warm, wet and naked woman.  His woman.  "I asked you last night, and you
didn't tell me.  It got real intense.  Did I hurt you?" He asked as he
wrapped her in a bath towel.

   "Only in the best way."

   "Leigh, it's the last thing on earth I would ever do.  I'm a big man.  I
was a big man before I became a man.  I have to be careful.  I break things
easily.  And Minx you are so much smaller than me.  I don't want to break
you."

   "I'm stronger than I look, Jason.  Besides dynamite comes in small
packages." Leigh said as she placed a kiss on his chest before slipping out
of the bathroom.  "Hurry up, lazybones, or we'll be late for work." She
called over her shoulder.

   "Minx." She heard him mutter before the shower turned on.



   Leigh was on the warehouse floor when she heard a page for her.  Pausing
she yelled at her partner over the roar of the conveyers.  "Be right back."
Walking up to foreman's desk, she took her call.

   "This is Leigh." She said, then her blood ran cold.

   "How much do you love that boy-friend of yours?" A voice rasped.

   "Excuse me?" Leigh said with a frown.

   "Just answer me, woman.  How much do you love him?"

   "Who is this?" She demanded.

   "Never mind that." the voice said harshly.  "Do you remember your
previous boy-friend?"

   "Douglas?  What does he have to do with-"

   "Everything.  Unless you break it off with Jason, something bad is going
to happen to him.  Maybe his brakes on that old truck he loves will fail.
Or just maybe his house might catch on fire with him in it.  So how much do
you love him?  Enough to let him go?  Or does he get to suffer the same as
you."

   "Why?"

   "Because you ruined Douglas's life.  He's gone now.  He lost his job,
his house, even his life.  I buried him last week.  And you, my little
conniving bitch are going to pay for it."

   "You left that cat on my porch."

   "I see you are starting to see the light.  Break it off with him.  Or he
pays the same as you." The dial tone buzzed in her ear.

   "Oh my lord." Leigh said as a wave a dizziness washed over her. 
Gripping the desk she tried to keep herself up right when darkness
surrounded her.  No one noticed when she hit the floor.

   Jason was on a forklift when his supervisor ran up to him.  Stopping he
placed the machine in neutral.

   "Hey Randy, where's the fire."

   "You are needed upstairs, pronto.  We found Leigh out cold on my office
floor.  I didn't even realize that she was in there til I tripped over her.


   "Son of a bitch.  Minx!" Jason grated as he vaulted off the forklift and
ran for Randy's office.  Randy swore and dove for the forklift that had
started to roll.  He just shook his head.  No one could say that, that man
wasn't deeply in love with his woman.  He damn near ran his supervisor over
in the process of trying to get to her.

   Jason rushed into Randy's office.  Around Leigh were two paramedics. 
One was waving smelling salts under her nose.

   "What the hell happened to my woman?" Jason asked.

   "Well, sir, it looks like when she fell she hit the side of her head on
the desk.  She has a real nasty gash on the back of her head.  She's gonna
have a couple stitches put in.  As soon as she comes around we'll see how
she does.  If all her vitals are fine, she'll be able to go home as long as
someone stays with her.  About that moment, Leigh moaned softly and tried
to sit up.

   "Minx, sweetheart.  You'll alright." Jason said as he pushed one of the
paramedics aside and knelt beside her.

   "Jason." She said then grabbed her head.  "It hurts.  What happened."
About that moment Randy walked in with Craig.

   "She was working with Craig when she got paged for a call.  She must
have come in here to get it." Randy said as Jason helped Leigh sit up.

   "Guess I must have fainted." Leigh said softly before the medics checked
her vitals.

   "She'll be okay to go home.  After we put those stitches in.  Do you
have someone to stay with you, Leigh?"

   "Yes, she does." Jason said protectively.



   "I guess I can ask Gloria." Leigh told Jason after the medics were done
with her.

   "Like hell, Minx." Jason said firmly.  "You are my woman.  It's my job
to see to your care.  I love you and I want to take care of you."

   "Jason, I can't.  I don't-I have my reasons." She finished.  She felt so
guilty.  But the raspy voice in her head wouldn't quit.  She didn't want
him to be hurt.  And that sick bastard that left that cat was more than
willing to hurt the man she loved.

   "What reasons, Ms Sunshine." Jason asked after setting her on top of
Randy's desk.  He was sitting in the chair behind it.  It brought her eye
level with him.

   "I don't want you hurt." She said finally.

   "Minx." He protested.

   "You don't understand.  That person that called.  He left the cat."

   "Wait a sec.  The call you got was someone threatening you!" Jason
roared coming out of his seat.

   "Not me much.  But you.  I don't want you to get hurt because of me.  He
said that he might cut your brakes or start your house on fire."

   "Minx.  You and I have something that I won't let go because some sick
bastard says that he doesn't want us together."

   "Jason, this has to do with Douglas.  He said that Douglas lost
everything.  That he was dead."

   "Minx.  I'm sorry that someone called and scared you.  I love you and I
won't let anyone run me off.  I've told you before that the only way that
I'll leave is if you tell me that you don't want me anymore." Jason said,
lifting her face to meet his gaze, he smiled softly.  "And mean it." He
whispered brushing his mouth across hers.  Just then Randy poked his head
around the door.

   "Is everything going to be alright?  How are you feeling, Ms. 
Sunshine?" He asked.

   "I don't feel to sunny right now.  But I'll live." Leigh said quietly
before sliding off the desk and walking towards the door.  "I need some
time alone." Leigh told them as she escaped the office.  Heading for the
docks, she decided that a breath of fresh air might be just what the doctor
ordered.

   Leigh sighed as she stood under the shower.  Hot steam filled the
bathroom.  She had managed to persuade Jason to let her go home by herself.
It hadn't been easy but he had finally relented.  He had still followed her
home but had not even walked her up to her door.  She knew that he was not
happy with her.  He had not been happy at all but he had relented. 
Providing that she let him escort back and forth.  Shutting the shower off,
she pulled the curtain back.  After drying herself off, she pulled on her
favorite robe and padded down her hallway towards her bedroom.  She paused
as memories of the night before flooded her mind.  How was she suppose to
give him up?  Then the phone rang.  Picking it up, she said hello.  She was
not surprised to hear Jason's voice on the other end of the phone.

   "Hi, sweetheart." She said softly leaning back against the kitchen door.

   "Don't hi sweetheart, me." He growled.  "It's damn lonely here without
you.  I don't know how I let myself get talked into letting you go home
alone."

   "Maybe it's because, I promised you mind blowing sex." She teased.

   "I'd like to know how I am going to have mind blowing sex, when you're
at your house and I'm at mine." Jason said as he leaned back against his
head board.  After arriving home, he had taken a quick shower and crawled
into bed.  He didn't realize how much he was going to miss having her next
to him.  His bed had never seem so big and empty before.

   "Oh I have few ideas." Leigh teased.  "It's a good thing you can't see
me.  Cause I'm gonna be red for the next hour or so." she whispered as she
pushed off the door and headed towards her bedroom with the cordless phone.


   Jason was sure that if she could have seen him she would have smiled
wickedly.  He could see his own expression in the mirror on top of his
dresser.  If he was catching her drift, his lovely little minx was thinking
about having phone sex with him.  And the thought was enough to make his
jaw hit the floor.

   "Minx, are you saying what I think you're saying?" He asked hoarsely as
his cock began to swell.  Leigh laughed softly in his ear.  He could hear
her moving around on the other end of the phone.

   "That I want to have phone sex with my incredibly hunky boy-friend?" She
said teasingly.  "Yes.  Just the thought of you stroking yourself, is
enough to make me come right now." Leigh said, not believing her own
daring. Jason groaned in her ear.

   "Minx, you better no be teasing me." he all but growled.  "I'm laying in
our bed with nothing but a hard-on.  I miss you."

   "Hmm, sounds like you miss burying yourself in me." Leigh teased. 
Laying down on her bed after dropping her robe on the floor, she lightly
pinched one of her own nipples.  She gasped softly.  She remembered the
first time that Jason had sucked on them.  It was almost enough to send her
over the edge.  Jason stilled when he heard her soft exhale.

   "Minx, what are you doing?" He asked with excitement.  "You're not
playing fair." He scolded.

   "And who says I've ever played fair." She asked impishly.  "If you tell
me what you're doing, I'll tell you what I'm doing." She said.

   "I'd like to show you what I'm doing." He growled.  "But since I can't.
I guess I'll just have to tell you.  I'm watching myself get aroused."

   "The mirror." Leigh said as almost to herself.

   "Yes, the mirror that I watched your ass bounce up and down in, the last
time you rode me.  Do you realize how hot that looked?" Jason asked her
roughly.

   "How did I know that you were watching us?" She gasped.  "Next time I'll
turn around so I can watch too."

   "Now what are you doing?  Turn about is fair play." Jason reminded her.

   "I was playing with my nipples.  Remembering the first time you sucked
them." Leigh responded feeling heat fill her face.

   "Oh man." Jason groaned as he slid his hand down his torso to his
waiting cock.  "I've never seen a woman come from me just sucking on her. I
almost came in my pants.  I bet if you play with your nipples long enough
it'll push you right over the edge." Jason murmured watching his hand
sliding up and down.

   "Jason, don't tempt me." She groaned.  "We haven't even got started
yet."

   "Speak for yourself." He growled into the cell phone that he had
squeezed between his ear and shoulder.  Leigh gasped.  She had seen him
stroke himself a few times in the past and she had almost gone through the
roof.  Nothing seemed sexier than a man fondling himself.  "Should I tell
you what I'm doing , Minx?  That I'm stroking my hard cock, wishing you
were here to watch me?  Because that's exactly what I'm doing." He groaned.
"I want you sitting beside me and watching as I tease myself into coming
all over my stomach.  Then I want you to run your fingers over your hard
little clit and rub it for me.  And when you get close to coming, I'm gonna
grab that sexy ass of yours and drink my fill." He panted as he watched his
hand move faster.  In his ear he could hear the small cries that were
coming from her.

   "Oh dear lord." Leigh gasped, sliding her hand down to her soaked
womanhood.  "You are going to drive me insane.  My pussy is so soaked that
I'm surprised you can't hear it.  I've just slid three fingers in me, but
it's not enough."

   Jason all but growled, sitting up in bed.  Swing his legs over the side,
he grabbed a pair of exercise shorts and the small box sitting on his
bedside table.  Pushing it into the pocket he walked down the hall to his
back entry way.

   "Move the phone down there." He ordered.  " I want to hear it.  But just
for a minute, then I want to hear you explode." Leigh's hand trembled as
she placed the phone on her sweaty thigh and continued to shove her fingers
in and out of her wet folds.  She was so close to coming.  And it hadn't
even been ten minutes.  Damn the man was dynamite even on the phone.  Jason
gritted his teeth when he heard the familiar squishing sounds.  She
definitely not lying about her readiness.  Shoving his feet into a pair of
old running shoes, he ran down to his truck.  He was so hot he barely even
noticed the cold night air.  Turning it on he waited for her to pick the
phone back up.

   "I'm so close." She panted when she came back on.

   "I can tell." Jason said hungrily.  "And I'm gonna push you right over
the edge." he promised.  "You know what I'm gonna do to you, the next time
I see you?" he asked as he started the drive to her house.

   "What?" she panted as she pulled her wet fingers out of her pussy and
started rubbing her clit again.

   "I'm gonna replace those fingers with me.  I'm gonna slam all ten inches
of me inside of your tight pussy.  And I'm gonna fuck you til you come
again and pull me over with you." He promised as he stopped at a red light.

   "Jason.  You can't.  The next time we'll see each other is at work." She
protested softly even as the thought of him fucking her at work sent her
closer to the edge.

   Wanna bet, he thought silently, then told her, "Oh hell, Minx.  I don't
care." He said as he waited for the light to turn.  He couldn't resist
giving his hard-on a quick rub.  "We'll go into Randy's office.  I'll strip
you out of those tight jeans you like to wear.  Then I'm gonna pin you up
against the door." He paused for a moment to tease her as the light turned
green.

   "Then what?" She begged as she crept even closer to coming.

   "I don't know, Minx.  You tell me what you want." He coaxed as he turned
down her street.  He wanted to keep her mind filled with images until he
got there.  He didn't want a fight with her about him showing up on her
doorstep.  All he wanted was to fuck the hell out her then sleep with her
in his arms.  Where she was suppose to be.

   "I want you to unzip your pants." she panted.

   "And then what?  Do I slam into you or do you watch me stroke myself."
he asked as he coasted to stop behind her house.  Turning the engine off,
he jogged up the back steps.

   "Nei-t-t-heir." she stuttered as he quietly let himself in the back
door.

   "What?" he growled.

   "I want to drop to my knees and eat you up." She gasped.

   "Oh you are a minx." He growled as he felt the familiar tingle in his
balls.

   "Then when you get close, I want you to-"

   "I'm gonna bend you over Randy's desk and hammer the hell out of you."
He growled as he slipped his shoes off and headed down the hall towards her
bedroom.

   "OH...OH...OH...." he heard as he passed through her open bedroom door.
He saw her laying on her bed with her eyes closed as she rubbed her clit
furiously.  Her cordless phone laying next to her ear on the pillow.  He
could see her other hand buried in her tight folds as she desperately tried
to bring herself off.  Throwing his cell on her dresser, he watched as her
eyes flew open and locked on his.

   " You're gonna come, Minx.  Right damn now."

   Leigh heard the clatter and opened her eyes to see her vastly aroused
lover standing at the end of her bed.  Then at his command her whole world
exploded.  She didn't care if the man on phone had threatened this man. 
Her body was beyond control and she couldn't stop now if she wanted too. 
At the edge of her mind she knew that she should be but at that moment it
simply didn't matter.

   "Yes!" She squealed.

   "Oh damn it.  I gotta have it." he growled as he dove into bed with her.
Shoving his shorts down far enough to free his close to exploding cock, he
pushed her hands out of the way and slammed into her.  Her lust filled gaze
locked on his face as she wrapped her long legs around his already
thrusting hips.  "I warned you." Is all he could say as the world start to
unravel around him.  Underneath him, Leigh groaned as her orgasm returned
with a vengeance.  "Yes, Minx!" He yelled as her contractions pulled him
over the edge.  For the next few minutes the bedroom rang with the sounds
of their ecstasy.

   Leigh yawned and tried to wake up when her alarm went off the next
morning.  She reached over to the bedside table and slapped at it.  She
felt a warm arm, under her breasts, tighten.

   "Good morning, Minx." Jason whispered.  "I'll go start the coffee." He
said before sliding out of her warm bed.



   Jason was standing at the sink staring out the kitchen window when he
notice a man crept up to Leigh's car.  He watched with disbelief as the man
attached a small bundle underneath it.

   "Son of bitch." He growled.  He ran out the front door and tackled the
man from behind as he turned to flee.  After knocking the breath out of
him, Jason yanked on the ski mask the man was wearing.  He was shocked to
see Douglas's face.  He stared in disbelief before rage flowed through him.
Here was the man that had made his Minx's life a living hell before she
finally had gotten rid of him.  And for the first time in his adult life,
Jason lost control of his temper.

   "You little bastard." He growled before slamming his fist into the
scared man's face.  Jason grinned with satisfaction when he felt the bone
in Douglas's face break.  Getting to his feet he hauled the bleeding man up
onto his tip toes.  Holding him eye level he stared into the man's eyes.

   "She's mine.  Get it through that thick head of yours or I'll rip it off
and shove it where the sun don't shine.  Got it!" The man nodded shakily.
Just then the a police car pulled up in front of the house.  Jason turned
and looked at the approaching officers.

   "He assaulted me officers.  Arrest him." Douglas babbled.

   "Look under the car." Jason said calmly.  "I caught the little bastard
putting something under my girl-friend's car." One of the officer dropped
down on one knee and examined the undercarriage of the car.

   "Hey Marv.  Call the bomb squad!" The man exclaimed.



   By the time that the police had left for the second time in two days,
Leigh found herself sitting in a daze on her love seat.

   "Oh god, Jason, I could have died." She said soberly.  "Thank god you
were here."

   "I'll always be here." He said softly.

   "I hope so." She said.  Looking up at the Christmas tree she smiled
sadly.  "What a way to start Christmas day.  I can't even give you your
gift.  It was in the trunk of the car." She said looking at the floor.  The
police had impounded the car to process it for evidence.

   "Minx.  You can still give me something." Jason said softly.  She
laughed sadly.

   "I wish I could, but no dice.  No stores are open." She said finally
looking at him.  She was surprised to see him kneeling on one bent knee in
front of her.

   "Marry me, Ms.  Sunshine." He said with his heart in his eyes and an
open jeweler's box in his hand.  "That's all I want." The tears started to
flow down her cheeks.

   "Are you sure?" She croaked.

   "Yes, Minx.  And I won't stop asking until you say yes." He said with an
impish gleam in his eyes.  "So you better say yes."

   "Yes." she whispered before leaning forward and kissing him
passionately.



   Later that day, Jason called his parents, who had retired to Florida.

   "How did it go?" His dad asked.
   "She Said Yes." He said happily.