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The Gardener’s Daughter
Category: Romance
She smiled, but it did not reach her eyes.
The stars that night seemed closer than they had any right to be.
There were stories told of this place, and none of them ended well.
Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.
The fire had burned down to embers, but neither of them moved to stoke it.
A knock at the door changed everything.
It was the kind of night when secrets refused to stay buried.
He had been waiting for her for what felt like an eternity.
The end.