Chapter Title: (78) I Probably Would've Kept My Mouth Shut If Your Boyfriend Weren't A-02

His warm, muscled arm fell over her shoulders as she shoved her lasagne around with her fork. Aiden leaned in to press his lips to her temple, "What's got you stuck in that beautiful head of yours?" Marley exhaled, not wanting to tell him the truth. The obvious reason was to keep her plans to get him a gift discreet, but the other one was that she felt embarrassed somehow. They were now on a break for lunch, a long table crowded with their finished gingerbread houses to dry and set. After they'd be choosing a name for secret Santa, and then decorating the big tree that would sit in the middle of the clearing outside the mess hall. The councillors were apparently delivering said tree right now in a big truck. There were Christmas classics playing, Marley was surrounded by her friends and with Aiden - but she felt pouty. She wanted to do for him even a shred of what he does for her and she's lost. "I'm thinking about you in a tacky Christmas apron making hot chocolates with the little ma