Mr Cuthbert’s Christmas Present
A festive Green Gables story from Blushes Supplement 24. Happy Christmas! Miranda looked out of the taxi window at stark winter fields on either side of the road and shivered. It was freezing out there: an icy wind and still frost from overnight. It was warm enough inside, in the taxi, but nonetheless… She glanced at the back of the driver’s head, then briefly met his eye in the driving mirror. She looked quickly away. Why had Mr Price sent her in a taxi, especially like this, the way she was dressed. Or wasn’t dressed. The driver knew . She knew he knew. The way he looked at her. Had her coat opened? It couldn’t have, she had been so careful keeping it closed ever since getting in. But she could sense that he knew. That she had nothing on under her coat. And what was to stop him, with one of those hot surges of lust for you that men got, turning off down some side lane, to a deserted, secluded little spot. Taking her out in the icy