Chapter 18 : Dilemma

*Alexander*

She was beautiful.

Her hair was braided, looking brighter and healthier than I’d seen her since we’d first met, pulled across one shoulder as she looked up at me with a nervous but hopeful look like she didn’t know she’d stolen the breath from my lungs.

Her dress was long, flowing down to the floor-length in a beautiful color that matched the same shade of my eyes. It was modest, with long sleeves but hiding so much depth underneath the layers the longer I looked.

It was only a moment, a single moment, but the vision before me was no longer Charlotte standing there - it was a little girl with a soft voice and a sweet scent, brushing her hands gently across my foggy eyes.

I had been blinded- only the vague colors of her little blue dress and long braid across her shoulder, her fingers wiping away the dirt around my face with her long sleeves remained, and it was only now that I realized how incredibly similar the two images in my head overlapped- Charlotte