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The Perfect Stranger
Category: Thriller
She had learned long ago not to trust promises.
The market was bustling with merchants, their voices a chorus of bargains and boasts.
She had not expected to see him again, not after all these years.
The garden had been her mother’s pride, and now it was hers.
He had been waiting for her for what felt like an eternity.
The stars that night seemed closer than they had any right to be.
She smiled, but it did not reach her eyes.
Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.
The end.