Whisper of Fortune and Love

His evenings were consumed with work - something to catch the hours, to forget his torn-up soul about the state of things with Jessica - he would not entertain anyone asking about him

immersed herself in her work at the crowded hospital, adminstering to the sick and soothing the dying, all the while lamenting the ghosts of

athering, and he and his family were thrust into chaos and fear. Jessica so happened to be part of the emergency team, and immediate care was needed. By the time she got t

ef pouring into his voice as

said curtly, surprise and concern flooding her voic

s something so vulnerable about it, it seemed to bust the walls that had sprung up since their separation. So Michael s

ry moment would send the quiet lust in his heart to a simmer. Theirs was a chemistry that had once been audacious and tempestuous but had now been s

g," Michael said

ut she lost some of her bite. "Your father r

spark beginning to light the tender space between them. "You care

o recalibrate their emotions. In quiet moments, they talked about dreams, fears and the future. Michael apologized, told how his father's fraught relat

ica she meant everything to him." And with the inspiration of rekindled love, he orches

ough the hall. "You showed me that I can believe again in love - not this crazy, big stuff, but just loving yo

ething to say to you as well." She swallowed, dredging up the courage to disclose the omnipresent white elephant in the an

hey dreamed of; they would build a stage for what was to come: a fortune of love and an advent