or one reason on

te, tucked away in the small, modest

house would be e

s wr

aking the heavy rain from my coat, shiv

own the hallway, l

ng from the

turned aroun

heir own, drawn by a f

e open double

nd piano, his postur

*Liebestraum*.

n he was blind, composed in the da

AM, in the quiet hours when the

hat the melody was the

s playing

e bench beside

gers trailing playfully over the keys, prete

aze landing on me st

t up with p

her voice dripping with false

ds faltered

c died a

tur

nd mine acro

oice low and guarded. "

y things,"

like wind whistling thr

ing a possessive hand on his chest. "Play the rest.

looked

k

w that

idn't co

ver leaving mine, cold and unyiel

inside m

vital cor

iled, vi

lean

ed her li

peck; it was a c

n't push

n't pu

d his eyes and

ere and wa

fed, the man I had saved from the brink of d

n't s

y turne

out the f

the rain transformin

t run f

raight into

tears on my face, makin

as

because he had just taken

emor