Christmas With The Deputies

<p>I should've turned down my sister's invitation to spend Christmas in Aspen Ridge.</p><p> </p><p>In the heart of the snow-covered Colorado Rockies...</p><p> </p><p>With the even more captivating Stone brothers-three decorated deputy sheriffs who command the mountain county with authority and intensity.</p><p> </p><p>After my fiancé abandoned me at the altar last spring Christmas alone seemed safer than resurrecting old wounds. But my sister insisted. One month. One quiet holiday to heal.</p><p> </p><p>What could go wrong?</p><p> </p><p>The three men who once made my teenage years complicated have transformed into something far more dangerous-protectors. Powerful. Commanding. Impossible to resist. They're deputies sworn to uphold the law yet I've become their only weakness.</p><p> </p><p>The moment one corners me at the station on Christmas Eve-all dark intensity and raw magnetism-my carefully constructed walls shatter. Their touch ignites something primal within me. Every whispered promise in the darkness is intoxicating. I want them all more than I fear the consequences.</p><p> </p><p>But consequences always find you...</p><p> </p><p>Three weeks later the clinic's fluorescent lights blur as I read the results.</p><p> </p><p>All three men show viable genetic markers the doctor explains carefully. The paternity test cannot definitively determine which of the three is the biological father.</p><p> </p><p>How did I let this happen?</p><p> </p>