🗝️Detective Ryker Viltarin must uncover dark secrets before he loses not only his heart but also his life.🗝️
You're on your own, far from home
The wind is blowing in the top of the pines
A gloomy sky where the sun never shines
Deep...
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines. To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image.
Why could nothing ever end well?
Eve really wondered what she had done to cause karma to give her such a reckoning. No sooner had she gained hope than the bubble burst again.
'No, stop it. Calm down,' she told herself and took a few deep breaths. She had to come to terms with it. Sometimes everything just sucked. But after every storm, there was always sunshine. 'Get through it. Complaining won't get you anywhere, you know that.'
Slowly, she turned her gaze to Ray and stroked one of the brown strands from the exhausted man's forehead. 'Thank you, Ray ... for everything,' she whispered a little more quietly. He had carried Liam all the way, and she couldn't describe how relieved and grateful she was.
"Don't worry, I'll ... talk to him later about what happened," Eve finally said, leaving open whether she meant the incident with the kiss or the pit.
That wasn't necessary.
Liam was a clever boy. He was always very understanding, and Eve was incredibly lucky to have such a lovely son. Liam had always been very mature about such things. That hurt her heart because she wondered if it was because of all the things he had to hear and deal with at home.
She had already put him through far too much ... It warmed her heart all the more that he could be the child he was here again. He was allowed to cry, scream, and show his feelings. But she wouldn't allow him to run away again.
If she told him she liked Ray, he would understand—not to this complicated extent, but enough for now.
She didn't know herself yet, and she would still have to talk to Ray about WHAT was between them and where it was going. But Liam liked Ray, and she was sure he needed time to understand that his father was no longer a part of her life.
Finally, the cottage came into view. Her feet ached, and she had to force herself to walk every step further. The smallest stones hurt the soles of her feet so much that she would have liked to whinge like a child and stop. But of course, she couldn't, and she wouldn't get home that way either.
