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After Xander had called Elijah out about his preference for threesoht, Elijah had shared a different sort of conversation with Logan

After they had left X-hale

It had been quite interesting and truthfully, it had left Elijah anticipating their next chance encounter He hadn’t expected to see Logan and Sae of plans on Sunday had proan rather than put it off

He had been given a chance at so he was certainly interested in and he had failed Knowing Logan’s reputation, Elijah hadn’t actually expected a second chance after he had disappeared on theht he had soain

Then he found out that his next trip had been cancelled

The e of plans, Elijah had reeted by Logan’s voicean, or if the ized, he felt a measure of relief

When he pulled into his driveway severalaround at the exterior of his single story brick house He knehat he would find if he did The yard was irass kept trihts along the driveway and that was usually all he noticed, if even that Elijah paid a company to h to deal with it

If life hadn’t been so incredibly cruel, Elijah would’ve been co home to his wife But that hadn’t been the case for the last four years because Beth was dead His beautiful, vivacious wife had died after a long, brutal battle with cancer, leaving him with a heavy heart that still beat with her memory

Had Beth still been alive, she would have insisted that they ain, if Beth were still alive, the gardens around the house would’ve been briht flowers that she would’ve planted herself and Elijah would’ve been ho before dark, business be damned

But, he was co hoht for the last four years

Once he was parked alongside the garage, he shut off the engine and stared out into the night He glanced over at the garage door as he sat there He could have parked inside the garage, but that would have meant he needed to remove the multitude of boxes that still remained there Rows of cardboard stacked on the cold concrete, collecting dust after all these years