Forever and Always

Category: Romance

She smiled, but it did not reach her eyes.

The letter was still on the table, unopened, as it had been for three days.

The fire had burned down to embers, but neither of them moved to stoke it.

A knock at the door changed everything.

The market was bustling with merchants, their voices a chorus of bargains and boasts.

A cold wind swept across the plain, carrying with it the scent of distant rain.

She had not expected to see him again, not after all these years.

He was the kind of man who kept his word, even when it cost him.

The end.

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