#Chapter15

I'd been in love with the idea of love for as long as I could remember. Each time I'd escape to the safe serenity of my mind I'd dream of what love was like. In every possible form I'd imagined it but never had I felt it.

I longed to feel it just once in my life. The first day in my humble hut I felt a sense of peace flutter over my tired body. I was almost jolted alive with the very idea of feeling even a fraction of freedom.

My naked feet sank into the soft cold grass as my feet pressed down onto the ground. Taking...