Backyard Dungeon by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Meyer had told me not to flash my money to avoid raising suspicion, and while there were a lot of improvements I wanted to make to the house, replacing all of the 1970s furniture being one of them, I decided to start small. I figured it wouldn’t raise too many questions to start replacing the fence since it was in disrepair, and once the new privacy fence was up, I could tackle the entrance to the tunnels without Mrs. Whitmire peeking over the fence to watch me any time she liked.

“I’m going to go out and get some wood to fix up a new fence,” I told Ibseth as she washed the breakfast dishes in her new maid’s outfit. “Would you like to come?”

I knew she’d mostly only seen the house and was probably getting bored being stuck at home all the time, and we’d managed the Walmart trip fine, so I thought it would be okay.

“Perhaps not, but thank you, Eddie,” the elven woman replied with a shy smile. “The sunlight still hurts my eyes. Is there anything you would like me to do here, my love?”

“Uhh-- if you want to,” I said as I put on my shoes, “you can start gathering up some of these old newspapers in the living room, and the junk we sorted through in the spare room yesterday. I’ll have to get a dumpster or something for the old fencing anyway, and we can get rid of it all in one go.”

“Then that is what I will do,” my wife said as she placed a clean plate in the dish rack.

“I won’t be long,” I said. “The closest hardware store that will have what I want on hand is in the next town. Hopefully, it won’t take long to deliver, because I won’t be able to haul all that wood in my truck.”

The backyard wasn’t wide, but it was long, and I wanted to make sure the fence was high enough to prevent the nosy old woman next door from spying on us anymore.

“Very well, my love,” Ibseth said. “I will miss you while you are away from me.

I stood, walked over to my wife, and kissed her.

“I love you,” I said as I tried on the phrase again to see how good it felt.

“And I love you, Eddie Hill,” Ibseth said back to me, and I could see that love glittering deep in her purple eyes.

I left the house with a big smile on my face, got into the truck, and drove to the big hardware store in Elyria.

There was something about the smell of wood and metal in a big hardware store that always reminded me of my dad. As a kid, I’d hated going there with him, but I was starting to see the appeal.

I walked back toward the big lumberyard in the back of the store, and I glanced at the appliances and bathroom fixtures as I passed. I thought about how I would remodel the outdated kitchen

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