Searing Sacrifice

The waiter hastily apologized, “I'm sorry, miss! Are you hurt?”

When Coralie came to her senses, she realized that she had been shielded behind Donovan.

The ground was littered with shards of shattered glass, and scalding soup was splattered in all directions.

Donovan was clad in a beige polo shirt, speckled all over with brown spots from the soup. The worst off was his grey sweatpants. One of the