Honeymoon

Nora

The morning after Rhys marked me, I woke up with a strange calm inside my heart. For years I had woken with worry, with guilt, with the old fear that something had been taken away from me again, that I couldn’t live my life fully, and that misery had become my companion.

But when the next morning I opened my eyes and found him still there, lying on his side, watching me as if I might disappe