Anastasia and Lola help to decorate the house for Christmas while the team is playing an away game. When the team returns, Nathan finds Anastasia wavering over whether to book a flight home to Seattle for the holidays. He asks her to come to Colorado with him while his family is out of town but recommends that she visit her parents first. He also offers to go with her to Seattle, but Anastasia says she needs to speak with her mother first.

Anastasia keeps asking Nathan what he wants for Christmas, but he says that he only wants her. It has been four weeks since they last had sex, and they can’t wait anymore. Nathan performs oral sex on Anastasia while she keeps asking him what he wants for Christmas, and he keeps evading the question. She tries withholding pleasuring him until he tells her, but then she gives up and tells him she’s not sleeping with anyone else. They have sex without a condom, which neither of them has done before. She asks him not to hold back, and he doesn’t. He calls her “a good fucking girl” (262), and she tells him that her body belongs to him.