**Adrian** I stepped out of the bathroom, I rolled the towel resting around my neck as I used it to dry up the water from my hair. The room was quiet, Katherine hadn't looked back. She knew the fireplace exactly where I had left her, stretching her both hands for warmth. The orange flames painted soft shadows across her face while the rain continued to fall heavily against the windows. For a long moment...I simply watched her. The woman sitting there looked nothing like the Katherine Blackwood the world knew. She wasn't the confident businesswoman who commanded every room she entered , She wasn't the woman who she tried to hide herself from. Tonight...She simply looked tired. Beautiful… You have been standing there for almost a minute, she said. Oh she knew I was looking at her for

