The Elven Days of Christmas by Caggiano A. K

Author:Caggiano, A. K.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-12-24T00:00:00+00:00

13

Well, The Song Doesn’t Go This High, So…

W hat in the nether was I thinking?

Well, Kol wasn’t thinking, he was just acting—acting like a brainless, horny elf. He was quite good at the brainless and horny parts, or at least he had plenty of practice. So much, in fact, he’d sworn off of that life a year ago, and it had worked until he met Piper.

Kol had been surprised with how easy it was to just not answer a call, especially when they came in the middle of the night. It was really only difficult when he sprawled out flat on his back and felt the full brunt of the emptiness that was his bed, but burying his face in a pillow and curling into a ball helped just enough to wait out the ringing until it stopped. After a season of letting his voicemail fill up and avoiding Sylvan Park where the elves in Bexley congregated, the calls finally stopped, and the temptation to fill the void he sank into when it was quiet and dark with the body of someone who didn’t care was fully removed.

But now? Piper flashed him that smile of hers or offered even the slightest kindness, and everything in him opened up like petals searching for the sun. He never forgot he was two halves of an impossible whole when he was in an elf’s bed—they never let him—but when he was in Piper’s, it didn’t matter, and he wasn’t even distracted by someone bouncing on top of him. Those disparate pieces were always floating at the corner of his eyes, refusing to come full focus and fit together. But simply walking at her side while she compared prices on dried pasta made those fuzzy edges smooth out and click together.

So of course he wanted to touch her, to do all those things he’d been told he was so good at, but not because he felt he needed to prove himself. Being with her made him feel…gods, what was it?

Home! At Kol’s side, the terrier plowed through the snow, tenacious and energetic. Its stubby legs weren’t made for snow, but he pushed on anyway. Kol thought to pick him up, but the dog’s point of a tail was wagging ferociously. How it could be so happy out of its element, he didn’t know.

“Okay, okay, we’ll head back,” he said to the dog then gave the fehszar a goodbye nod.

She’d found an aspen and was ripping at its bark, chewing lazily. Another creature, out of its element yet complaintless. Perhaps it was easier, lacking complex thought. He lacked plenty of it when he wanted to rub himself against Piper, and just a second more and he would have given in. That was where his elven sensibilities stopped and the human ones took over. But Kol supposed he wasn’t very good at being a human either as it came with a whole different host of feelings and complexities that no one ever taught him to manage.

Rarely

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