A Bryson Family Christmas
Brothers in Blue, book 4
Jeanne St. James
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Contents
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About the Book
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Part One
Christmas Eve Morning
Chapter One
Max & Amanda
Chapter Two
Marc & Leah
Chapter Three
Matt & Carly
Chapter Four
Teddy & Adam
Part Two
Later Christmas Eve
Chapter Five
Marc & Leah
Chapter Six
Matt & Carly
Chapter Seven
Teddy & Adam
Chapter Eight
Max & Amanda
Part Three
Christmas Day
Chapter Nine
Max & Amanda
Chapter Ten
Marc & Leah
Chapter Eleven
Teddy & Adam
Chapter Twelve
Matt & Carly
Epilogue
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Welcome back to Manning Grove...
Enjoy a trip back to the quaint town in Northern Pennsylvania, where the Bryson brothers are celebrating Christmas in this special holiday edition of the Brothers in Blue series.
Come visit with Max and Amanda, Marc and Leah, and Matt and Carly while they wrangle their kids, along with Greg, Menace and Chaos, too! Joining in on the fun, the man we can’t forget (because he won’t let us), Teddy, and his fiancé, Adam. And, of course, Ron and Mary Ann, the parents/grandparents we all wish were our own.
Spend a couple fun-filled days surrounded by the Bryson family, twinkling lights, evergreens, fresh snow and plenty of presents. Plus, share some intimate moments between the couples.
Note: This is the fourth book in the Brothers in Blue series. It’s highly recommended to read the Brothers in Blue trilogy first, along with Teddy’s short story, since everyone in this book has already found their soulmate and the love of their life. This book is meant to be a fun and light-hearted revisiting of a few beloved characters in a small town we all know as Manning Grove.
Dear readers,
Welcome back to Manning Grove, Pennsylvania. This book is solely an excuse to revisit with one of my favorite families, the Brysons. It was time to catch up and take a peek into their lives. If you’re unaware, they also do cameos in my Blood Fury MC series, since that series is based in Manning Grove as well.
I hope you enjoy spending time once again with the Brysons as much as I enjoyed catching up with them myself. (I’ve missed them!)
Please be warned, Teddy and Adam are also included in this book so there are some sexy times happening between the engaged couple. If that’s not your thing, you can always skip the end of chapter four when they have an intimate moment together (but I hope you don’t).
If, for some reason, you missed Teddy and Adam’s short story (which came after Matt’s), you can download it here for free: BookHip.com/DRTBTW I highly recommend reading that before reading this book.
~ Jeanne (wishes she was a Bryson) St. James
Part One
Christmas Eve Morning
Chapter One
Max & Amanda
The low, gravelly whisper filled her ear and made her nipples p
ebble. “You know what happens to bad girls who don’t stay out of trouble?”
Amanda smiled and stretched, keeping her eyes closed. Her man’s voice was delicious. “Mmm. Her husband spanks her ass.”
“EWW, Mom! Gross!”
Amanda’s eyes popped open and her ten-year-old daughter, Hannah, stood by the bed, her face twisted in disgust. She swallowed her thumping heart back into her chest.
“Why would Dad spank you?”
Oh shit. “He wouldn’t,” she lied as she sat up and noticed the other side of the bed was empty. “Where’s your father?” Certainly not whispering naughty promises into her ear, damn it.
“Getting Liver and Greg ready.”
Amanda pinned her eyebrows together. “Stop calling your brother Liver.”
Her daughter huffed like only Hannah could. She was an expert at it. “That’s his name.”
“It is not. We picked out a perfectly good name.”
“Then you should’ve had a perfectly good son. He’s not. He needs to go back.”
Her five-year-old son was never going back up her vagina. No way. No givebacks.
After Oliver was born, she’d pretty much threatened Max with death if he even thought about having a third child. She even had him get snipped. And if he didn’t, she threatened to do it herself sometime during the night with a rusty butter knife.
Knowing his wife too well, he decided not to take that chance and made an appointment the next day.
Smart decision.
Two pregnancies were more than enough. The only good thing that came out of those were her two kids. Though, she was rethinking that right now as she frowned at Hannah, who stood with one hand on her hip.
She was ten going on sixteen. She took after her father.
Funny, he insisted Hannah was just like Amanda.
Well, at least they agreed she looked like Max with his dark brown hair and crystal blue eyes.
Amanda yawned. “What is he helping them with? Breakfast?”
“No, Mom! For Grandpa to pick us up.”
“What?”
“It’s an early Christmas present or something. That’s what Dad was telling Liver.”
“Hannah...”
Her daughter bugged her eyes out. She was an expert at that, too. She probably practiced the hand-on-hip, bugged-out-eyes routine in the mirror. “Oooooliver. There, you happy?”
Not really. “Whose Christmas present?”
Hannah shrugged. “Don’t know.”
“I don’t know,” she corrected her daughter.
“Apparently you don’t, if you’re asking me.”
“Hannah.” Amanda took a deep breath. Kids took a lot of patience. No one warned her of that before one of Max’s enthusiastic swimmers hooked up with one of her reluctant eggs. “Say I don’t know.”
“Okay. You don’t know.”
Amanda rolled her eyes. Her daughter did, too.
Oh lord, she was putting an ad in the local penny shopper and giving Hannah away. Cheap. Screw it, free.
Shit, she’d only find her way back home. The kid was pretty damn smart for ten. Plus, Max might not be happy that she gave away “Daddy’s girl” and he might arrest his own wife.
Hmm.
That reminded her, they hadn’t broken out the cuffs lately…
“Mom!”
“What?”
“Can I borrow your makeup?”
That was why her daughter interrupted her hot dream? “No. You’re ten. And the last time you borrowed it—without permission, might I add—you ended up looking like a drunk raccoon.”
Hannah snorted. “Well, if you’d teach me…”
“You’re ten,” Amanda reminded her for the millionth time. “Your father doesn’t want you wearing makeup and we’ll let him decide when you’re allowed. Plus, if you haven’t noticed, I’m not great at it.”
“Teddy can teach me, then.”
“Fine, go to Teddy. But not before your dad says it’s okay.”
“I’ll ask him.”
“Okay. Go do that now and stop asking me questions that you know I’m going to say no to before you even ask them.”
“Whatever, Mom.” She did her signature huff.
“Yeah, whatever,” she mimicked. “Now come here, give your mean mom a kiss and then go get ready to go to your grandparents. By the way, if Grandpa saw you with makeup on, he just might throw all your presents into the fireplace and then ground you for a month.”
“He can’t ground me.”
“No? He still grounds your father and uncles.”
Hannah giggled. “He does?”
“Yep. And since he outranks us all, he can ground anyone in the family.”
“Even Grandma?”
“I’m sure Grandma gets a different type of punishment.” She rolled her lips under, trying not to smirk.
“What kind?”
Oh shit. “Uh… that’s between them.”
“I’m going to ask him.”
Oh shit! “No, you won’t! That’s… That’s their business, not yours. Now, come give me a kiss since I won’t see you until later.”
“What’s later?”
“The Christmas parade. Daddy’s going to be up front right behind the mayor.”
“He is?”
“Hannah, honestly, don’t you pay attention to any of our conversations at dinner?”
“Yessss.”
Amanda sighed. “Now you’re fibbing.”
“No worse than you,” Hannah blurted out as she surged forward, gave Amanda a quick kiss on the cheek and bolted from the room.
Amanda stared at the empty doorway and smiled.
God, she loved that kid. She might have been worth all those hours of pain and torture—and the verbal abuse she gave Max—during her labor.
She should get up, take a shower and get ready for the day, but it was rare that the house was empty of not only the spawn from her loins, but her brother, Greg, too. She glanced at the clock. Another hour of uninterrupted sleep would be heaven.
She shimmied her way back under the covers and sighed as she stretched out, having the whole king-sized bed to herself. Then closed her eyes and went searching for that dream…
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“You know what happens to bad girls who don’t stay out of trouble?”
Max’s wife stirred and a naughty smile crept over her face. “Mmm. Her husband— Wait, I’m not falling for that again.” Her eyes popped open and she shot up in bed, smacking her head against his chin.
“Fuck!” they both shouted at the same time.
“Ow,” Amanda moaned, rubbing the top of her head.
“Hey, your head is harder than my chin,” he complained, rubbing his throbbing chin.
His wife not only had a hard head, she was a hardhead.
Her eyes raked down his naked body as he kneeled on the mattress next to her. The surprise in them quickly turned to heat.
That was more like it.
“Well, hello, Chief Bryson, I think you forgot your uniform. Do you at least have your cuffs since I’m a bad girl?”
Max raised an eyebrow. “I’m sure I can find a set somewhere in our bedroom. Is the cuff key still taped to the back of the headboard?”
“Why? Do you plan on wearing them?”
“Do you?”
“Ooo. That was an actual purr.”
He wiggled his eyebrows. “You like that?”
She lifted a finger and tilted her head for a long moment. “You know what I like? Silence. No screaming. No fighting. No pounding feet up and down the stairs. No barking dog as Chaos tries to herd them. Greg not yelling out random fucks and shits. No glass breaking. No slamming of doors.” She inhaled deeply through her nostrils, her eyelids fluttered shut and she exhaled a long, “Aaaaaaah.”
“Your extremely handsome husband’s a genius to make it happen. Just admit it.” He had suggested it to his parents, who jumped on the idea and decided to take all the grandkids—except for baby Levi—this m
orning and keep them overnight.
“An empty house might be the… Best. Christmas. Present. Ever!” She closed her eyes and flopped back onto the bed, her head bouncing off the pillows. “So freaking awesome.”
“I know. Now you owe me.”
“Mmm.” She opened one eye. “But empty house or not, I’m not giving you another baby.”
“It’s been five years.”
The other eye opened and she glared at him. “My dear, currently breathing husband who’s at risk right now to be smothered to death, we are not having a baby every five years. After last time, I realized five years isn’t long enough for me to forget. Everyone lied about that.” She lifted a hand. “And, you forget how old I am now. Way too old.”
“That’s true.”
Amanda jerked the pillow from under her head and whacked him with it. “You’re not supposed to agree. And, anyway, you got snipped.”
“If you remember, the doctor said it can be reversed. You know, in case I traded you in for a younger model.” Max grinned and shrugged.
“I guess I’m putting an ad for both you and Hannah in the penny shopper.”
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