An Offer of Freedom

Tires crunched against the damp pavement as the taxi pulled up to the secluded hotel entrance. Coralie pushed the heavy passenger door open and stepped out into the biting evening chill. Her shoulders ached with a dull, throbbing pain from a gruelling shift at the hospital. She stopped dead in her tracks, her breath catching in her throat. Desmond leaned casually against the driver's side door of