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‘A clever trick,’ he said quietly. ‘That’s twice now you’ve tried to kill me when I’ve meant you no harm. Next time I won‘t be so forgiving.’
Hiding his trembling hands, he stepped back from her and waited. He wouldn’t let her know just how unnerving the experience had been for him, wouldn’t let her know that in a world made black and white, she had been doused in colour.
‘I considered flowers, but I thought you’d like this more…’
‘Stolen snatches of time won’t do when it comes to you.’
‘How is it that in a world leached of colour, I see you brighter than the sun?’
‘I see the world around me in black and grey… There is no colour, only shades of darkness. But you…’
‘You are a spectrum of colour in the shadows. You pull me back towards the light…’
‘Since the moment I met you, I have felt like I was soaring. With you there is no ground beneath my boots, no rail to hold on to, and for a time there, I fought it with all my might… But no more. I’ve let go. And Wildfire, it’s more than I could have ever imagined. With you, I didn’t fall in love. I rose amid it, stronger than ever before.’
‘I love you against all reason.’
‘If it’s not enough,’
‘then carve out my heart, Wildfire. It’s yours.’
Love didn’t happen once, she realised. It happened every day, in little moments, in the quiet gaps between grand words, in the lingering touches, in the hope it promised in the dark. Love was something that breathed and expanded, that was made and remade, again and again, reforged only to become stronger.
‘We take our happiness when and where we can. I’m glad you found yours, even if it’s in the middle of a storm of darkness.’
