As You Wish

Chapter 2

She was the sun, he decided. Even though the silver moon had long been risen the sky. She shone like hope itself. His wish, his salvation. She had saved him when he considered himself unsalvageable. Pulled him from an un-conquerable sea. And now … she sat above him, like a golden goddess. On her hill, their hill. He could see the glittering trails of tears meandering down her wraith-like cheeks. Did she have so little faith in him? Yet in just two minutes (even less if he ran) she would be by his side, and he would be complete.

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He wasn't here. He had promised, yet he hadn't come. One year, she had waited, one long, painful year. She had put on a mask and hidden in a cage. As far away from the world as she could get. Kept her hopes up with dreams and fantasies, until her whole life rested on one day and one man. But he hadn't come. What was she to do now? She had tasted heaven, and now it had been dragged away by a shining knight. One who had vowed himself to her, yet shattered her heart. She laid her head in her heads and wept for her fractured life. Then hands came from behind her, snaking around her waist and she was whole


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