Free A Billionaire Brothers' Christmas (BBW - Billionaire Brothers 6) by Jenn Roseton Page B

- constantly.” Cole’s
expression softened. “I don’t want them wearing out
Phoebe.”
“And you love it.” Logan clapped Cole on
the back.
“Yeah,” Cole admitted.
“This should make pretty good padding for
my Santa costume.” Mitch grabbed a pillow off the bed and held it
against his stomach.
His brothers followed suit, each snatching a
pillow off the king-sized bed.
“Good idea.” Garrett pulled on the red
Santa coat, placed a pillow inside against his torso, and fastened
up the large silver buttons. “How do I look?”
“You need a beard.” Logan tossed him the
white fluffy beard that came with the suit.
“And the pants,” Mitch added.
“Right.” Garrett yanked on the red
trousers, buckled the wide black belt and looked at himself in the
full-length mirror. “Not bad.”
“Pretty good,” Cole allowed.
“Yeah,” Logan added.
“So how do we decide who gets to play
Santa?” Alex brought their attention back to the main
question.
“How about all of us?” Amusement crossed
Logan’s face.
“What?” Cole frowned.
“All of us brought a Santa suit. The kids
are going to have stockings hanging over the fireplace.  Each
of us can dress as Santa, take turns, and put the gifts in our
kids’ stockings. If any of them wake up and creep down to see if
Santa is here, he’ll see only one of us pretending to be Santa. And
if we wear the beards, we probably won’t be recognized if we keep
our face averted.”
“The kids haven’t recognized Dad yet when
he dresses up as Santa to deliver the gifts in the middle of the
night and they sneak a peek,” Garrett added.
Mitch’s face fell. “Didn’t think of bringing
a stocking for our future baby. Sophie didn’t either. She’s been
rushing to finish a landscape design so we could get here
today.”
“Got you covered.” Cole winked at his
younger brother. “When Phoebe found out Sophie was pregnant, she
insisted on bringing an extra stocking for the baby.”
“Thanks.” Mitch grinned, punching his
brother lightly on the arm.
“I’ll go get it.” Cole left the room and
quickly returned, carrying a green fabric stocking with the words
Baby Trask stitched on it in wobbly silver embroidery. “Phoebe has
some antique samplers in her store and wants to make a sampler of
her own to hang inside the living room, so she’s learning
embroidery.”
“It’s beautiful,” Mitch said gruffly,
staring down at the homespun gift. “Thanks, bro.”
“Okay.” Alex cleared his throat. “So we’ll
take turns being Santa tomorrow night. When the kids have gone to
bed, and we’re pretty sure they’re asleep, each of us will sneak
down the stairs and put the gifts in our kids’
stockings.”
    “What if they see us
creeping down to the living room? Won’t they wonder why Santa was hanging
around upstairs?” Cole asked.
    Alex blew out a breath. “Fine.
We can hide our Santa suits somewhere downstairs and when the kids are asleep we can change
into them downstairs and then place the gifts in the stockings.”
“We’ll have to bring the presents
downstairs too,” Garrett said. “Otherwise we’ll be dressed as Santa
going upstairs to get the gifts and then going back down to put
them in the stockings.”
“What about tonight?” Logan suggested. “We
find somewhere we can stash the costumes and the gifts, and once
the kids have gone to sleep tonight, we bring everything down ready
for Christmas Eve.”
“Good idea.” Garrett looked
thoughtful.  He took off his costume and offered it to Alex.
“And why have five different costumes hidden down there when one
will probably do?”
Alex took it off him, and with a smile,
shrugged into the jacket and added the pillow.  He fastened
the buttons and turned to his brothers. “What do you think? If it
fits me and Garrett, it will be big enough for the rest of
you.”
Cole, Logan and Mitch took turns trying on
the costume, which also fitted all three of them, including a
pillow stuffed up the front of the