The sunlight caught the water droplets clinging to her eyelashes, making them shimmer like diamonds. My gaze dropped involuntarily to her lips, parted and slick with lake water. She looked so ethereal, so agonizingly beautiful, that it felt like a physical pain in my chest.
"Lara," I choked out, my voice thick with an emotion so vast I couldn't contain it. I brought my free hand up from the water, my fingers trembling slightly as I tucked a wet lock of hair behind her ear. I let my thumb linger on her cheekbone, wiping away a stray drop of water. "Goddess, you are so beautiful. I don't think I've breathed a full breath since the day you left."
Her cheeks reddened in response.
We drifted there in the middle of the sacred, quiet lake, completely suspended in time. She didn't offer a forg
