Thunder rumbled and clapped in the dark sky. Rain would only come much later. Rondha Wilks stared out the carriage window and thought about the visit that was supposed to take place tonight. No, rendezvous. How many girls had secret lovers behind their parents backs? Oh the shame Mother and Father would have to go through, she thought, relishing the idea of the humiliation they would have to go through, no, writhe in if they or anybody outside the family for that matter, found out about her fortnightly meetings which went on for a year before her engagement with this man. Especially this man.
The carriage headed faster and faster into the lurid grasps of the forest. The moon glowed chalky white and even through the loud bumps the wooden wheels of the carriage, the low, solemn hoots of owls and the many cries of wolves as the called out to each other could be heard. Rhonda glanced at a glittering diamond ring which was on her second last finger of her left hand. After some time riding in the darkness, the carriage came to an abrupt stop.
She gazed outat the wooden cabin which was quite some distance away from her. So close and yet so far, she thought....
"We're here, mam' " the carriage driver said hoarsely.
Rhonda looked at the man with a deep feeling of disgust. His clothes looked as if they haven't been washed for at least a week and he sported himself a scraggly dirty pale ginger beard wich went along with his equally pale dirty ginger mop of hair. She handed him a small purse with money and told him to stay where he was. The driver snorted as a reply and went back to smoking his pipe.
From where she stood, she admired the scenery of the place. There was a lake which glittered under the glow of the moon and a beautiful field with soft long grass. At the side of the lake was the cabin. She breathed a sigh of happiness and did the one thing she wasn't allowed to do. She lift her dress up as high as possible, let her smooth auburn hair down and took off her shoes and ran like a mad woman to the cabin. The messy driver lept a foot in the air then shrugged and muttered "Never in my life" under his breath.
Rhonda ran and every step she took only made her want to get closer to that cabin. Her legs pumped, energetically and her heart was raced so badly till she swore that it would beat right out of her chest. When she reached the cabin, she didn't stop. She flung the door right open and there he was, standing in the of the cabin with a smile that instantly melted her heart and arms wide open where she landed softly, knowing that it was the one place where she truly belonged. She stayed in his arms for a long time, not caring about anything else but themselves and what little time they had together. She felt the muscular body on her soft one and his strong arms which hugged every inch of her upper body. They broke apart from their hug which seem to last forever and admired each other.
She couldn't take her eyes off him. His sky blue eyes looked at her warm and lovingly. He had a fine crop of long ebony hair witch was always tied neatly into a ponytail and his smile, his smile was so beautiful. Never in her life was she ever head over heels in love with someone. Not even with her fiance, Edward. James was his name and it was a name which suited him divinely. She really couldn't take her eyes off him. Everything right there at that moment wanted to make her explode with indescribable happiness.
He looked at her. Her eyes were a beautiful dark chocolate which went wonderfully with her hair which was long and a little bit curly. She was looking at him with so much love, he knew that he could only be happy with her in his arms forever than to let her leave. She beamed at him and when she did, a wave of bliss and ecstasy crashed upon him. Nothing in te world would make him happier than to see her happy and smile like the way she's smiling right now. All his life, he was with the wrong women, at the wrong places in the wrong time. But now, as he glanced at this extraordinary woman. He knew that there was nothing in his life he was more sure of, more certain of.
And it all happened a year ago in the Yorkshire's town market
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