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Dark Angel

Chapter One

If anyone had asked Sarah how she had gone from living in a quiet suburb in Chicago to sleeping at the top of the Luxor hotel, she wouldn't have been able to give a short answer. In a very short amount of time, her life had turned upside down. It was like she had stepped into her own private Wonderland.

It all started about ten months ago. Sarah was happily engaged to her boyfriend of three years, Joe Courtney. They were just about to begin their new life together. Sarah was going off to school in Indiana to get her Doctorate in Pharmacy and Joe was fresh out of automotive school. They planned to move to Indianapolis together, get an apartment, and when Sarah was done with her first two years of school, they were going to get married.

As Sarah finished packing on the night before she was to leave she couldn't help but cry. Joe couldn't move down to Indy with her right away and it would probably be three months before they would be together again. It would be the longest the couple had ever been apart. As they lay down in their bedroom they knew that this would be the last night they would share a bed together for a long time.

Joe pulled Sarah close and slowly wiped the tears from her ivory cheeks. "Why are you crying?" he asked gently staring down into her deep blue eyes. "You're going to have so much fun in college that those three months will fly by. Then we can be together again." But Sarah had trouble answering him. The truth was she knew that she could go three months without Joe and everything would be ok. She would miss him terribly but in the end she knew that her love would remain. She couldn't tell him that what was making her cry was not sadness but fear.

A year and a half ago Joe had broken Sarah's heart. He had done the unthinkable by cheating on her with a girl he met at school. When Sarah found out, he begged her to forgive him, saying they could work things out and that he would never see the girl again. She believed him, but was then forced to end it after three torturous weeks of being led into thinking he still loved her, only to find out he had been seeing the girl behind her back. They had stayed separated for two months before finally reuniting. Sarah had never truly forgiven him though and he had never fully regained her trust.

Now, as Sarah looked into the gray-blue eyes that filled her dreams each night, and ran her fingers through his messy brown hair, she felt the pain that had filled her the day she discovered his deceit. "Please talk to me Sarah," he whispered, "I don't want our last night to be this way." Sarah took a deep breath. Maybe if she tried to explain, her worst fears wouldn't come true. "Joe, I love you so much. I…I'm just scared." "Scared of what?" he asked, concern filling his voice. "You know you will do great in school. There is nothing to worry about." "No, it's not that," she replied, "I'm scared I'm going to lose you." He gave her a confused look and she knew she had to explain. "I'm afraid that us being apart for that long will make you forget me. You will go out and find someone new and it will be like before. One day I'll find out you were cheating on me and I know I can't survive that again."

"Oh, my love," Joe said quickly, pulling her tighter into his embrace, "I could never forget you. I love you Sarah. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. I know I've made some mistakes in the past but I'll never be that stupid again." Sarah nodded in understanding but this did little to calm her fears. Deep down she knew…