Moonlight Serenade
Category: Romance
He had been waiting for her for what felt like an eternity.
The garden had been her mother’s pride, and now it was hers.
The fire had burned down to embers, but neither of them moved to stoke it.
The stars that night seemed closer than they had any right to be.
It was the kind of night when secrets refused to stay buried.
Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.
She smiled, but it did not reach her eyes.
A cold wind swept across the plain, carrying with it the scent of distant rain.
The end.