Raphael
I ran around the property as was my daily ritual of morning exercise, cutting through the woods. The dogs running alongside me, sometimes going ahead in their own quests and then coming right back. It had been a few days since the dinner with my family where I had officially engaged her to me. She wore my ring. And soon she’ll be mine. I just didn’t know how to break it to her. That night when she had given me that ring, her brown eyes had been liquid soft, for once I had been able to read her. The hesitance. The fear of unknown. And the appreciation for what I had done. But she was wrong, I didn’t think she’d look at me like that if she knew what it was all about. I didn’t deserve her gratitude. And for all the reasons I wanted her to want me, I didn’t like that she’d want me bec
