Chapter 5 As fast as the blink of an eye it was Christmas Eve. The last few weeks had been absurdly busy with all the Elves working long hours to get everything prepared. After Santa Claus returned from delivering gifts around the world the Elves could begin their own holidays, but now no one wasted a moment of time. As the Head Elf’s assistant, Christian seemed to be working nonstop and at the end of every day leading up to that magical day he’d fallen into bed exhausted. The last week before Christmas Eve, he and Gabriel hadn’t found any time or energy for making love and now that they stood in the courtyard of Santa’s Village in front of the Castle preparing to see Santa off, he hoped to remedy that in the extreme near future. Most of the Elves were gathered in the courtyard to see

