In His Shadow
Author: steellilly23
Renting: PG-13
Summary: The Nightingale takes a revenge on the Batman for playing with her feelings and would Batman allow her to win this game or will he turn the tables on her in a same game in which only one will end up as the winner?
Prologue
He watched her descending in the ballroom of his mansion with a beauty that left him to long about her for a way too long as he could remember. From all the women that he had dated for a short period of a time, she was unique and out of his touch and yet Bruce knew that she was there to take her time and tease on him in any possible way and yet never allowing him to come near her.
This was not the girl he knew two years ago and much had changed in that period of a time. Long had gone the innocence of a wide eyed young girl he knew and in her spot stood a woman at the peak of her beauty with those eyes the color of aquamarines and midnight shade of her hair and skin that was the mix of coffee and cream, she watched him across the ballroom he could see more in those eyes that she was not willing to show.
Marie… her name rolled down his tongue as the rich taste of caramel that only he could see in her that made him long for her more than anything a name that would hunt him no matter where he might go.