Short. Hella sweet. Very lightly edited.

Haven’t met Anika and Royal yet? You can in their Christmas season story, Bittersweet!

There’s also a Pinterest Board for the project if you want to see some of my visual inspirations from when I wrote Bittersweet last year.

“I thought we talked about this.”

Royal looked up from his laptop screen, where he was—supposedly, but probably not really—hard at work.

I stayed perched...