The Best Gift
The Best Gift This Christmas, Virginie would be surprising her family with the best gift she could ever dream to give them. She had the most successful year yet at the bistro, and, after years of penny-pinching behind the scenes, she finally had enough saved up to purchase the vacation home in France she’d always dreamed of for them. It wasn’t even December, and she hadn’t even told her husband yet, but the excitement that the paperwork was nearly finished filled her with electricity as she awoke each morning, and lasted until she fell asleep next to him each night. The day before the paperwork cleared, she couldn’t hold it in anymore. She woke up and rolled over, smile beaming at her husband, Liam. “You seem chipper,” he laughed. She picked the phone up from her night stand and with a nod of affirmation. With a single swipe, she had a picture pulled up on her phone of the 3-bedroom house in Versailles that would be theirs the next day. “I can’t wait any longer. Can I please tell ...