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    Journeys in Eladonia: The Sell Sword
    Journeys in Eladonia: The Sell Sword
    Journeys in Eladonia: The Sell Sword
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    Journeys in Eladonia: The Sell Sword

    By Shannon Peel

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    Logan Reachie is a sell sword in the Court of Perns for the Countess Aleesa Della Terra. His job and his family have caused him to loose the woman he loves, can he fix everything or has he lost her forever? He made her promises that he wants to keep. He has always stayed out of the power politics of the Courtiers but now everything has changed and he finds himself a pawn in a powerful man's game

    Part one of the series is told from the viewpoint of a slave called Drela.

    Part two of the series is told from the viewpoint of a slaver called Raif.

    Part three of the series is told from the viewpoint of Logan Reachie and is the start of his and Margaret's story.

    Part four of the series is told from the viewpoint of Margaret and continue's the story between Logan and Margaret as they start their married life.

    Part five of the series is once again told from the viewpoint of Logan.

    All parts can be found for free on Smashwords.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShannon Peel
    Release dateJan 8, 2013
    Journeys in Eladonia: The Sell Sword
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    Shannon Peel

    Shannon Peel grew up in Enderby, BC where her family's root run deep. Growing up where television was either non existent or very limited she relied on books & imagination to travel into the world beyond. She went to UBC to study and earn a general studies BA with a concentration in Political Science and Economics. Macro analysis of world events, social justice and human motivations became a passion of hers. This passion is a driving force in all her stories, which have political, economic, and social justice undercurrents. After a career in the financial field she decided to stay home and raise her two children until school age. In 2007 she return to the workforce as a sales / marketing / advertising professional. THIRTEEN is her debut full size paperback novel.

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      Journeys in Eladonia - Shannon Peel

      Journeys in Eladonia: The Sell Sword

      By Shannon L. Peel

      Copyright 2013 by Shannon L. Peel

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be resold. Since it is not professionally edited or published it is a free ebook and must stay as such unless given permission by Shannon L. Peel to charge a fee for the ebook. Found on Smashwords.

      This is the fifth short story in a series of short stories.

      Drela and Raif’s Story:

      The first is called the Slave and is about a woman called Drela

      The second is called the Slaver and is about a man called Raif

      Logan and Margaret’s story:

      The third is called the Soldier and is about a man called Logan

      The fourth is called the Seer and is about a woman called Margaret

      The fifth is called the Sell Sword and is about a man called Logan

      Note:

      If you have not yet read the Soldier and the Seer this story will not make a lot of sense to you. You can download the Soldier and the Seer at Smashwords for free. You don’t necessarily have to read the Slave or the Slaver to understand what is going on but both will provide some insight into small parts of this story.

      Chapter 1

      I’m going to be a father.

      I am so mixed up I hardly slept last night. It is way too soon for children because I hardly know my wife and considering the way things have been going I am having a hard time seeing a future with her. Since getting to Perns it’s been like walking on eggshells around her trying not to set her off. She’s been so insecure, emotional and argumentative like most other women and women are nothing but trouble. Trouble I’ve always tried to avoid but now there is a baby and that changes everything again. I’m freaking out but at the same time I’m very excited by the prospect. My stomach lurches and I think I’m going to puke, it’s too much too soon.

      I’m lying in bed at home alone, my mother insisted Margaret stayed at their place and I wanted to sleep in my own bed. To be honest, I wanted space from the pressures of my family to think because suddenly my life is complicated and I don’t do complicated.

      Margaret was so capable, so strong, when we were going to Analeesia. I can’t help but smile as I remember her negotiating at the market. So smart, practical and efficient, so different from the women of Perns. She was such a remarkable woman but the minute we arrived in Perns she changed becoming insecure and high maintenance. We haven’t been here a week and she is irrational and needy. However, with the new city, Aleesa, and the black priest can I really blame her for being so insecure?

      I guess all women are too much of a nuisance to get involved with, even the independent ones. Women are good for one thing, letting off steam and that’s it. The rest is just messy dramatic games. Life is too short for all this drama, it is one thing to watch it constantly unfold in front of me, quite another to be wrapped up in the middle of it.

      She tricked me, I’m sure of it. Tricked me into believing she is a self-confident, astonishing, no nonsense, honest, straightforward and practical woman.

      ‘LIAR – stop trying to place the blame on her,’ my conscience screams at me and I squirm in bed as guilt washes over me, rebuking me.

      ‘She is all of those things. It’s Aleesa and your family playing games, messing with her mind and you allowing it to happen that has caused this mess. You are the one that ran away, left her there without a word of good bye and where did you go? To Aleesa’s home’

      It’s where I live damn it! I scream out to the empty room.

      You’re going to have to choose, Margaret or Aleesa father told me in his study.

      I’ve made my choice but I can’t just quit working for Aleesa over night. I have to find a new employer first. I have to make money I have a wife to support. Plus Aleesa will need time to find a new sell sword to replace me.

      Logan you’re making excuses to stay in Aleesa’s employ for as long as you can get away with it. If it were any other woman then your logic makes sense but Aleesa Kinsey is not just another woman and you know that. She lives to mess with other people - you’ve seen it with your own eyes boy. You know you can always come home until you find new employment and I’d always support you until you did.

      I don’t want your financial support or to live with my family. I’ve been on my own so long the idea of getting money from you and living under your roof again is unthinkable.

      Living under the same roof as Aleesa is the better option then my help? My father looked so hurt and I felt like a pathetic ingrate.

      I honestly was going to leave Aleesa’s employ as soon as a replacement was found and then take Margaret to meet mother at the Reach, that was the plan. I just haven’t had enough time to make the arrangements and mother came here. Now my family’s abhorrence of Aleesa has made Margaret distrust me. How can I look at her knowing she doesn’t trust me?

      Logan, you have chosen to marry and your wife should be your first priority. You say you married for love, but you have not exhibited it. I saw her love for you on her face when you arrived. I watched her watching you play with the kids and her love for you shone bright. She stood up for you declaring her love to all of us when she was attacked by your family’s suspicions. She was scared, very scared, and held on to you for strength and reassurance, which you barely gave. She had to act for herself because you refused to fight for her like you did for Aleesa at the dinner table. Son, never defend another woman more than you would your own wife.

      Father she’s strong and capable. She doesn’t need me to fight her battles for her.

      Logan, this is not her world and she is very scared in it. You’re right she is strong and capable but that is because she has been on her own, living a very lonely life from what I understand. It is all very overwhelming for her, why do you not know this?

      It was not a scared little girl that I married. He is right though, she was alone most of her life and that is why she is so strong, so independent and so capable. Why would she all of a sudden be so weak?

      No you didn’t. You have to understand she is like a fish out of water here and Aleesa is a shark in her own waters. Aleesa does not need you standing up for her in our home but your wife does. You have to choose Aleesa or Margaret because Aleesa will chew her up and spit her out.

      Why did my father make me choose my job or my wife when Margaret had not? She put up with Aleesa’s mean

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