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Chapter 64 – A Reason to Stay
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Love's Healing Touch Chapter 67 – The First Light in New Walls
Sunlight streamed through the upper windows of the Lancaster house, golden dancing on walls once remembered. They'd spent their second day inside the estate house, and although all yet still surprised Elara, there was a quiet there she hadn't anticipated. The air was no longer heavy with Adrian's past—it was beginning to take on the shapes of their tomorrow.Elara awoke first, rolling over beneath the heavy velvet bedclothes of their bedchamber. She glanced over at Adrian, watching him sleep. There was something in the relaxed arrangement of his face while sleeping—unshackled, almost boyish—that always left her breathless. This was the man that the world had feared and excluded, the man whom they'd branded ruined.He was merely Adrian to her. Her Adrian.He rolled onto his side and opened his eyes slowly, a small smile tugging at his mouth as he saw her staring at him."You're gaping."She smiled. "I just can't believe that we're actually here."He wrapped his hand around hers under t
Love's Healing Touch Chapter 65 – A Place at the Table
The next day Adrian's family departed, and the world had been rearranged—bigger in one corner, more substantial in another. Elara caught sight of Adrian walking back and forth in the house: quiet but not withdrawn, unhurried but no longer silently mourning. There had been an opening up in him, a wound which still leaked, but its mending was begun.He was in the kitchen, pouring boiling water into the tea kettle, and Elara sat a few feet off in the room, observing. His sleeves were rolled back, and his hair was tousled from just rising. For what felt like an eternity, he stood there, his face buried in the soft light out the window."You didn't sleep at all," Elara whispered.Adrian looked over his shoulder, a tired smile etching his face. "I couldn't help but think of last night. What they said. What they didn't.""Regret is heavy," she said, standing to walk beside him. "It is many things."He set a cup in front of her. "They want to come back today. To visit. To walk down to the cot
Love's Healing Touch Chapter 66 – Beneath the Quiet Sky
The subsequent days following the family visit of Adrian were uneventful but full of warmth both Elara and Adrian hadn't known in decades. The little cottage that had once been sanctuary to two isolated souls fleeing mankind now creaked with laughter and mending. But even during the times of tranquility, there was this unspoken between them—this which Adrian still couldn't bring himself to say.It was getting dark when Adrian was lingering at the tree line, his thoughts gnarled as uglily as the thorns that lined the forest floor. Elara sat beside him, hand-feeding two orphan lambs. She spoke softly to them, her voice low and serene. Adrian observed her for an instant before he moved closer."You always know they need," he said softly.Elara lifted her face, a gentle smile playing across her lips. "Animals are simple. They simply need to feel safe, warm, and loved."He sat next to her, following the spine of the lamb with his fingers. "Sounds like hu
Love's Healing Touch Chapter 64 – A Reason to Stay
Her legs wrapped in a loop around themselves on the apartment floor, dim light, city lights stretching out in far shadows behind glass windows. The flash drive that could fit in the palm of her hand was an electric live wire. Sinuous, silent, minute—but holding all her past. The answers she had been searching for all these years. The answer she never anticipated Killian to give her.Her computer rested, lid open on the low coffee table, cursor flashing in sync with the rhythm of her heartbeat.She wasn't ready.But she never would be.She took a breath and slid in the flash drive. The screen flickered to life instantly, folders neatly stacked, titles written in Killian's tidy, precise hand: Bank Transfers. Contracts. Victor. My Father. Yours.Elena opened the last one.The papers came one by one, unwillingly: torn letters, bank records, deeds. And in all of them—a faxed letter, stamped with a date close enough to twelve years earlier. Her father's writing, still so recognizable all th
Love's Healing Touch Chapter 63 – When the Walls Begin to Fall
The sky was a wide sheet of pale blue as spring progressed slowly into the little village. The final remains of winter had been swept clean by the last storm, and with its loss, something between Adrian and Elara had changed—almost without realizing it to either, but deeply.Adrian sat outside the cottage, fingers charcoal-blackened as he rubbed them over the paper to draw the shape of a fox he'd spotted earlier along the edge of the treeline. He sat still, intent, even when his mind wandered easily. It was a different sort of therapy, these still hours and painting. Before, he was rewarded for appearances; now, he was soothed by art.Elara sat in the window, scooping a little container with minute marigold seeds from the windowpane, singing. Fingers were caked with dirt, hair bound together in a matted knot, one smudge of filth on one cheek. Adrian stood by the glass, watching her, his heart aching at something he couldn't place.He came inside."You have a smudge on your cheek," he
Love's Healing Touch Chapter 62 – The First Storm Together
It began with the gentle touch of the wind across the windows of the cottage. Elara was in the kitchen, singing softly as she prepared tea. The air was filled with the scent of rosemary and chamomile, and the smell of rain on the horizon.Adrian entered, his hair still damp from washing, dressed in a simple linen shirt she had mended for him. He looked more himself these days—stronger, more present. The scars remained, as did the memories of his illness, but something within him had softened.“You’re up early,” Elara said, pouring him a cup without needing to ask.“I couldn’t sleep,” he replied with a small smile, accepting the cup. “The sky looks strange today. Like it’s holding its breath.”Elara glanced out the window, noticing the thickening clouds creeping in over the hills. “A storm is coming. It’ll be the first one of the season.”Adrian stepped behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his chin on her shoulder. “Then we’ll weather it together.”They sat thus f
Love's Healing Touch Chapter 61 – Beneath the Same Sky
Soft light flooded the cottage, staining rose-gold stripes on wooden walls. Elara woke up before him, her face on Adrian's naked shoulder, his arm still wrapped around her. She didn't move for what seemed like an eternity—only heard the slow thump of his heart against her ear.It was their first morning as wife and husband.And yet, there was no urgency in the air, no rush to rise. The world outside could wait.Adrian's fingers moved gently through her hair as he blinked awake. He smiled, a rare and beautiful thing that had grown more frequent in the past weeks.“I was afraid I’d wake up and find it was all a dream,” he murmured, voice rough from sleep.Elara moved forward to gaze at him, her tired smile golden. "If it's so, I don't ever want to wake up."He pulled her to him, his lips on her forehead, softness that could not be imitated. "Then let's never wake up. Let's remain in this dream as long as possible."But outside the cottage, there was life—and always would be.By late mor
Love's Healing Touch Chapter 60 – Vows Among the Wildflowers
Spring entered the village unobtrusively. The sun poured down upon the hills benevolently, and the breeze brought the fragrance of wildflowers in bloom over the fields. Three weeks had passed since Adrian and Elara returned from the estate, and in those three weeks, they had started planning, step by step, for the next chapter of their lives as one.They had not seen a beautiful cathedral wedding or a luxurious party of nobles and the wealthy. Instead, they'd opted to take the field just outside of Elara's hut—the very field where Adrian had fallen several months prior, broken and lost, when she had first seen him.He stood now on the edge of the same field, his heart full but unyielding.He stood rooted there as Elara came into sight, dressed in a delicate ivory gown she had fashioned herself. Delicate embroidered lilies curled at the hems of her sleeves, and a daisy crown sat securely in her hair. Her ever-soft eyes met his the instant she caught sight of him.Adrian's breath was ta
Love's Healing Touch Chapter 59 – The Letter in the Attic
The next morning, after the low-key proposal of Adrian, was surrounded by an atmosphere of quietness. Although nothing had been officially stated, there was something in how he grasped the hand of Elara as they walked into the breakfast area that caused everyone to stop. Clarisse was the first to notice, eyes darting from the flushed face of Elara to the gentle face of Adrian before a sly grin crept over her lips.Breakfast was unnaturally quiet. Nobody asked questions, yet everyone knew.Afterwards, while Elara had stepped outside to feed the birds in the rear gardens, Clarisse overcaught Adrian in the hallway."She said yes," he conceded before she could get a word in."I expected," Clarisse smiled tenderly. "She radiates.""So do I, I guess.""You do." Clarisse touched her fingertips to his shoulder and smiled. "You two deserve it."Adrian's tone was gentle. "I never thought I would again."Following breakfast, Elara strolled into the older section of the estate. Curiosity pulled a
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