Chapter 113

Isabella

‘This was the first place where I truly met you. So set on my ways, I was ready to push you away, announce to you that I was ready to break the mate bond. Yet that day, I was given a shock. Because you beat me to it.

I think of that day so fondly now, because I didn't know then how desperate I was ready to be in your life. I had ignored the twinges of change inside me, which I know now we're the roots of something deeper. I was falling for you before I even realized it.

I remember how you looked then. Thin and fragile, yet so guarded. The dress you wore seemed to swan over you, hiding you away from the rest of the world. But what caught my eyes the most was your hair. Though they were as red as they are now, the flecks of them, under the sunlight, looked golden.

Your hair looked like this golden thread, a beautiful piece I couldn't fathom, trailing down your back in curls. I wish that I had the words to give, or the power to put the image of you then to paper. You were a visi