Winning Her Back
Stay.
The word hung in the air like the last note of a cello, vibrating in the charged silence of the candlelit studio. Outside, the storm still raged, wind howling against the windows, rain lashing the glass, thunder a distant drumroll. But inside, within this fragile circle of warm, flickering light cast by the single candle on the ancient drafting table, the world had shrunk to the space between Ethan and me. He hadn’t moved at my plea, only his eyes had changed, deepening, intensifying, holding mine captive across the few feet that felt like an impassable chasm and yet no distance at all.
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