The Elf And Shoemaker by M. L. Rhodes

Author:M. L. Rhodes [Rhodes, M. L.]
Language: nld
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 5

By the time Logan crawled into bed Thursday night—fully dressed in sweats and a thermal tee—he was torn somewhere between excitement, cautious optimism, exhaustion, and sheer damn loneliness for a man he couldn't get out of his mind.

He'd sold another bottle of the oil in the afternoon, to a twenty-something Goth couple who'd pretty much gone through the same sniffing and arousal game that he and Sally and Jane all had. They'd come in to buy incense, but thanks to Hallan's oil had left with the incense, the PASSION oil, candles, and a thick book on Tantric sex. "Damn, baby, I never knew you were so kinky," the heavily pierced man-in-black had said as he'd goosed his girlfriend's ass while she was paying. Logan hadn't cared what they were goosing ...

he'd been too stupefied by the total amount of the sale he was ringing up.

As he lay in the dark, the covers pulled up to just below his eyes for warmth, he wondered, with a tremor of anticipation, if Hallan might come back tonight. He couldn't deny any longer that Hallan existed, but he had no idea how this had all happened. Where did Hallan live? What had he meant when he said he'd been with Logan a long time? He'd known that Logan had asked for help, but how? How had he gotten in the house, and how had he left? Through the front door, or did he just poof out of existence, or what?

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The Elf And Shoemaker

by M. L. Rhodes

Those questions and more had run through Logan's head all day. How, how, how? Why, why, why? He'd come up with no reasonable answers. Although, in a world where elves and love potions were fact rather than fiction, the definition of

"reasonable" seemed to have flown out the window.

But the two biggest questions in Logan's mind were: what had Hallan meant when he said he'd lose Logan if he stayed last night? And when would he come back?

He'd said he'd return as soon as he was able, but things where he came from were complicated. Logan didn't know what that meant, and it left him with a knot in his stomach.

He was afraid "as soon as I'm able" might mean a month from now, or a year, or, God forbid, even longer. He had a gnawing fear that if he didn't see Hallan again soon, like really soon, he might begin to forget details about him, and then one day he'd wake up and think all over again that it had just been a wonderful dream.

Except you'll still have the ring.

He rubbed the fingers of his left hand over the ring on his right, trying to take comfort in it and the fact Hallan had left it for him—a piece of him to hold onto.

"Why am I obsessing over this so much? Twenty-four hours ago I didn't even know this guy existed. This is crazy."

But he knew exactly why he was obsessing. Twenty-four hours ago he hadn't had the

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