Holiday Hell (Erotic Short Shorts Book 2) by Liz Meldon

Author:Liz Meldon [Meldon, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

Five

The Customer is Always Right

Jack rounded the corner of the Bennington’s doll aisle just as a woman walked out—with two blue-haired Miss Molly dolls under her arm. Hope. Elation. Success. Victory was in sight! And only a week before Christmas too. He had been seriously pushing it.

He quickened his pace, only to stop and curse under his breath. There wasn’t another blue-haired doll to be found. That woman must have taken the last two. Scowling, he searched through the department for an associate, but as usual, there wasn’t a hideous vest in sight: just a sea of frantic shoppers. He contemplated chasing the woman down and offering to pay double for one of the dolls, but that seemed unlikely to work.

Besides, he couldn’t find her anywhere, and not for lack of trying. Annoyed, he marched back to the aisle and grabbed a purple-haired doll instead. They seemed to be friends in the commercial, her and ol’ blue. If he couldn’t make the blue work, maybe purple would be close enough. He still had a week left to shop, and damn it, he was going to make this happen.

He did one last loop around the department—not because he wanted to purchase other toys, but because he wanted to see if Elise was around. Last time they’d seen one another they had decorated trees, and he had left the department store positively buzzing, grinning from ear to ear like a fool in love. However, he realized his mistake as he was pulling out of the parking lot: he hadn’t asked for her number. Jack had hoped to do it right this time, but she was nowhere to be found. Disappointment compounded with his annoyance, and he trudged through the store, straight for the thirty cash tills, without so much as a hint of a smile.

That is, until he found her. Elise wasn’t in the toy section because she had been stuck behind a register. Poor thing looked absolutely miserable. Jack, meanwhile, felt a rush of giddiness course through him as he got in her line.

Ten minutes later, Jack almost regretted the move. Elise seemed to have a whole slew of customers buying enough crap to fill a bus, and each transaction moved painfully slow. The elderly gentleman in front of him, complete with whiskers sticking out his ears and nose, had started grumbling about two minutes ago, a string of endless cursing that made Jack press his lips together as he tried not to laugh.

Another five minutes crawled by before the older gentleman dumped his basket of socks on the counter.

“It’s about damn time,” he snapped as Elise started scanning his items. Jack, meanwhile, was sort of half listening as he tried to figure out which chocolate bar from the shelves next to the register would best boost his waning blood sugar for the ride home. “I’ve been in this line for over an hour!”

“Sorry,” was Elise’s response, which only seemed to rile him up more.

“You’d better be. I didn’t come here just so I could stand in a line.

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