The Coveted Bond

[LORD RAFE ALDER MORLAND]

There is a sparkle in her eye, "You are still a young Lord—Rafe, but..." she trails off, "I suppose you are at that age to wonder.”

Her eyes stretch forward again into the gardens below with a sigh, "—Wonder about her, whoever she may be."

I watch her for a moment before following her gaze back down to the gardens, the quietness of the morning reaching me.

"If it eases yo