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Alina Jacobs
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December 16 - December 18, 2024
To anyone who's ever consumed an entire bottle of wine and a gingerbread house in one sitting…this one’s for you.
“We’ll have roast cheater for Christmas dinner.” Finally.
“No,” he snarled and threw the credit card at me. “This isn’t a fucking Hallmark movie, Sugarplum. I want cash: $5,000.”
“God doesn’t give with both hands. A man’s not going to have a giant dick, a hot body, and a big bank account. You have to pick one. You read too many of those dirty billionaire romance novels. I should have divorced your father earlier. God help me, but you married someone just like him.”
“remember what I said? It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be done.”
“I’m giving you a lecture on knowing your worth. Now put me on a payment plan,”
“My bad. Didn’t mean to cockblock you, Hudson,” Granny Murray called. “I’m going to kick this ho’s ass, then we’re going to make Christmas cookies.”
Granny Murray for the win
“You touch one of those cookies,” Hudson said in a low warning voice, “and I’m breaking your hand.”
“Then I’m going to find whatever homicidal maniac thought it would be a good idea to combine Chipmunk singing and Christmas carols and strangle them.”
She thinks men don’t like her as much as her sister, but she’s wrong. She’s very alluring. She just doesn’t realize it.
“It’s like she’s wearing the world’s best disguise. She lulls you into thinking she’s this precious object that needs to be protected at all costs, then bam! she knifes you. You wouldn’t know it, but she’s sharp, observant, and has a filthy sense of humor.”
“Sugarplum, all I can think about is putting my mouth on your sweet, juicy cunt, but I’m glad to see you’re an ally.”
while the sidekick gets thrown in a lake or kicked by a donkey in the Christmas pageant or something.
Aw Hudson where’s the confidence my man
“You practically run EnerCheck, you can cook for a hundred people like it’s nothing, you can bake, decorate, plan a major wedding, and you volunteer. Hudson is a dumpster fire compared to you. He’s sex obsessed, doesn’t have a career, has a bad attitude, lies, and thinks sleeping with Kelly is a fantastic way to blow off steam. He and Kelly are made for each other—bad boy and bad girl.”
Tell it from the rooftops Dakota
“No more hot guys with big dicks who are good in bed. You’ll forever be a despised wife, stuck with a husband with no ass, who doesn’t help take care of the kids, while you waste the best years of your life and have to hump a washing machine just to come.”
You go Gracie tell that bitch off
“James doesn’t even go to this family.”
“You took my door,” I shrieked. “So I can’t shut it. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”
“Hudson wins hockey games, and Gracie cooks,” her uncle concurred. “They’re the whole Christmas package right here.”
“I ate all your Nutella and blamed the maintenance guys,” she said flatly. “I am a bad person. Rely on yourself. Stand up for yourself. For once in your life.”
“Fuck you and your entire shitty family. Not you, you’re actually cool, Granny Murray,”
“I want someone to love me,” I said sadly. “I want someone to look at me and think ‘that’s my person.’ That’s what I’ve been waiting for my entire life.”
“Hudson is right. An asshole, but right. This family is toxic. I’m glad EnerCheck is dead. I’m glad that Dad and James aren’t able to gaslight me and manipulate me anymore. If they had listened to me in the first place, the company would have been fine. There wouldn’t have been anything for Hudson to report back to Grayson Richmond. Everything would have been fine.”
“She is sick of incompetent men being given all the credit and all the benefit of the doubt. New Year’s resolution—I am not making myself small so that rude pompous men can feel better about themselves. Put up or get out.”
“You know,” Grayson said after a moment, “if Hudson Wynter wasn’t so madly in love with you, I’d ask you out on a date.”
“Believe what you will, but he’s so obsessed with you, I think he just might kill me if I was anything less than coldly professional.”
“I give people gifts because I like to give gifts. I don’t expect anything in return.”
