Growing Pains

They say love is easy, and it does not burn.

Elizabeth Grace Soriano always gets told that she has a warm heart; forgiving beyond reproach, kind to a fault. But she never really understood the idea about the confusion of her nature, because she believed that her heart was hers to give and love was the free thing she could offer to anyone she liked.

And that was exactly what she gave to Giovanni Malcolm Moretti when he came to her life like rain during a summer's day; unexpected, but oh-so pleasant.

She offered him warmth, care, adoration... And there was love, above all.

It was enough. It should have been enough. But he decided it wasn't, and Elizabeth soon grasps that love costs too much for some other people and it burns when it is not right.