Untamed Heart

Prolouge

Windamere Estate
1801, England Countryside
Summer

Olivia felt the sun on her face. It was a rare sunny day here in the countryside and she enjoyed every second of it. She thought to herself what a
wonderful painting it would make. Olivia hasn't picked up a paint brush or sketched a drawing in months. She used to love to draw or paint anything she saw or whenever she could. Yet, for what seemed like a long time she hasn't thought of her favorite past time. It was all just to painful with old memories attached to it.

Suddenly she heard laughter in the distance. She opened her eyes and turned towards the direction of the sound. There she saw three small children playing by the pound on the estate. Two of the children have blond golden hair like their mother Emily, Olivia's closest friend's daughter. She saw Emily as if she was a younger sister to her. After her mother had passed Olivia took in Emily and made her part of her family.

How happy she was for Emily to have found her true love, and to have family of her own. Which she was sitting next to her in the lawn chair. Emily's husband Andrew stood almost 6 ft, dark blond hair and blue eyes. He leaned down and kissed Emily on the forehead. Emily's golden hair shimmered in the summer light. She smiled up at him. It made Olivia think back of the past and of her one true love Michael. It seemed like a long time ago. How she wish she could have that again. To be with the man she loved.

Now she had a part of him that she loved more than anything. Their son, Theodore, but she called him teddy for short. He looked just like his father; curly dark hair like a ravens, and grey color eyes. How she missed her beloved, Micheal. They had known each other since they were children. His father Edward Thornton worked as a ship merchant and was a business partner with her father, Duke Theodore of Windamere the 3rd. She named their son after her father.

Michael and her were inseparable while growing up. His father Edward would bring him along each time he meet with her father about their shipping business they were in. Michael was learning the merchant and ship building business from his father and one day take over it. 

When he wasn't studying with his father he would spend his time with her, and they would play with each other. They would run and play in the gardens and swim in the pond on her father's estate. He was always protective and was always there for her. She knew that as long as he was at her side nothing bad would happen to her.  When she began sketching and began to get into different paints, Michael encouraged her to pursue it. He believed in her and her skills in drawing.

Olivia have always cared for Michael as if he was like an older brother to her and he cared for her. Over time that caring feeling she has for him, it  slowly began to turn into feelings of falling in love. Olivia realized one day after years of being close she was in love with Michael. Yet, she was afraid  to tell him how she felt. He cared for her like a younger sister, but he might never see her as grown woman.

It wasn't until she turned 18 that her father wanted to present her to London's high society. She was to be presented at court in the summer during the season. Before traveling to London her father
threw a grand masquerade ball, and invited half the county and all of high society had attended. It was at that party the she finally confessed to Michael how she felt. For the party she was dressed as Odette from swan lake, a white swan. She sketched the gown herself and her closest friend and cousin Marie made the dress. The two of them hoped to one day begin their own dress company. A old dream that the two of them thought of long ago.

Her gown was pale white, long and flowing. It had white feathery wings attached to her back, and a mask with white feathers and beaded pearls along the edges. Her dark auburn was pinned up, and she wore a small crown on her head.