All day he had battled to silence the constant gnawing in his chest. Every phone call a hollow echo, ev

ead. Having kissed her, he had crossed an unrecrossable boundary and was now lef

fully built front of stability, suddenly seemed like a jail. Beautiful and composed, Seraphin

unique. It had awakened something inside

ween his fingers. They were of no importance. Nothing mattered but

time was running out. Walking towards the door, he felt his footsteps reverberate in the vast void of his office. The si

roaching him with her eyes downcast. Seeing her, so deli

erything else melted away-the halls, the walls, the

s obvious. Though neither said anything, t

n was in that very moment. He could no longer ac

ers trembled a little as she kept walking. He wanted to yell at h

aw her vanish down the corridor. The guilt

unable to sleep. Since the kiss, she had been unable to sleep. Harrison was all she could see every time she

she helped was never more clear than when she let herself indulge the idea of something more. But she

t shame ate at her, ready to drown her in its wake. She was not

ld she not respond when every cel

mellow streetlamp light that created long shadows over the room. The stillness o

k in the stillness. Her heart skipped a beat as sh

mo

home. Her mother's voice was anxious. There's nothing for you in

hs. The idea of coming back to leaving what she had created seemed like a backward move. Her mother's comments, however, had a

respond im

ded no solutions. Marissa had no right to be here. She never did. But the kiss, the intimacy she had

red into the phone, her

t and conclusive. You have to

rew the phone away. She could not remain. Still, she was unable to depart. Marissa packed her little bag the next morn

t of independence, she suddenly felt as though

actually leave everything behind? Could she abandon the life

ting to seep in. Harrison's touch, his kiss, had unlocked a door she could not shut

rward, honest picture of him with a warm, real smile, it made her heart race. She could not ignore the draw. Even in

ning to find Harrison in the doorway, his presence filling the space like a s

ust happened and what was about to happen. Harrison's dark, unfathomable eyes met hers. Shallow was his bre

ly, her name's heavines

derstood his thoughts. She understood his desires. But the road they were on was

h you. That left everything