Luis watched her walk away from him. He grimaced as unexpected pain lanced through his heart. f**k.
This was the only woman in the world who could wreck him so easily. She always could. He must have sensed that as a boy. Maybe it was why he ran? He watched her with covetous eyes.
She was unapologetically beautiful. Had been as a child, but as a woman her beauty surpassed every one of his expectations. The curve of her back as she swayed in and out of the crowds. She stopped and chatted with a few people.
Wardens he knew or would get the names of as soon as he was done following her! Her smile was still dazzling. He remembered how easily and readily she had smiled as a kid. Her inquisitive nature startled him back then. She'd been so open and honest. Now she was a stranger. Or was she?
