Winning Her Back
Aino.
He held a large, exquisitely bound book open on his lap. Not a children’s picture book. A tome. The cover gleamed with gold embossing I recognized even from across the room, Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Kalevala illustrations. Rarest of the rare. My breath hitched. Aino was tracing a vibrant illustration of the Sampo with a small, reverent finger, chattering animatedly. Ethan listened, his profile serious but softened, nodding occasionally, pointing to something on the page, his deep voice a low rumble I couldn’t quite decipher but that held an unfamiliar warmth.
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