I swallowed hard, my chest heaving as I turned to the video again. It didn't look like a police report or a news video. It was just a personal video that seemed to have taken specifically for me.

"You... you did that for me?"

He leaned behind me, his hand dipping in the water. Slowly, he brought his fingers up and let the roses fall on my skin, his face nuzzling in the side of mine, his breaths hot against my skin, his chest heaving lightly.

He reached for my hand and held it tight, his lips brushing my skin, his presence setting me on fore, lighting up embers I...