I Would Love a Few Toy Soldiers

By Trinity Blacio

In this Christmas short story, best selling paranormal author Trinity Blacio gives us a look into a very different take on the classic toy workshop!

Turtle Kreps restored old toys, selling them on the Internet. She hid her scared face most of the time because people were crueler than she would like to admit. But she wasn’t expecting her silly little Christmas wish to come true.

What the hell would she do with four alpha soldiers?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books
• Release date: Dec 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781626015395

Trinity Blacio

Trinity Blacio is an established romance writer of best-selling Running in Fear series, as well as a number of dark fantasy, erotic romance, erotic horror and ménage titles. She is the mother of two children and lives in Ohio. Her work can be found at Freya’s Bower and Ravenous Romance, as well as the work of her alter-egos Maria Moonstar and Selene Noreen.

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I Would Love a Few Toy Soldiers ©Trinity Blacio 2019

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Digital ISBN: 9781626015395

First Edition, December 2019

Chapter One

By the age of 29, Turtle had been dealt some nasty crap, but she was bound to make the best of her situation. Setting up a workshop, sort of like Santa’s she supposed, Turtle fixed and refurbished old toys. Selling them, and sometimes donating them to children in hospitals around her, especially the one for childhood cancer.

She held out the old 1950’s toy soldier she had found, smiling at the final result. This one she would give to the little boy in the cancer wing she had met last week. With Christmas only a few days away, it sucked for any of the children to be stuck there, and this little one had touched her heart in so many ways.

Not only did Bret Henderson have cancer, but he had also been scarred by his biological parents. This didn’t stop the eight-year-old from being an angel in her book. Being a ward of the state, Bret would have been alone on Christmas again, but not this year.

She looked at the calendar and sighed. It had been six months since she had applied to adopt the little boy, but with her status as a single woman living alone, Turtle didn’t know if Bret would be hers or not. That didn’t mean she would let him be alone on Christmas.

Sure would be nice to have a few of you hunky alpha toy soldiers around to help, maybe even be a daddy to Bret if I get him, she whispered, putting the old toy soldier down near the other toys and some needed clothes she had