The sunrise brimmed over the tops of evergreen, the rays instantly warming her chilled face. A satisfied sigh escaped her lips as she basked in the warmth of the new morning. When Gabriella opened her eyes, she noticed she was sitting in her pajamas on the balcony outside her bedroom at Raith’s Bainbridge Manor. When this realization sunk in, her eyes whipped to the left, and she saw him… like she had seen him before, in his business attire, with the top three buttons undone on his white shirt, his tie laying across his knee, and his eyes fixed outward toward the dawning sky.
Her breath caught and her heart was an absolute terror in her chest. “Is this just a dream, a memory, or are you really here?” she whispered unable to take her eyes off him.
Raith’s lips upturned into a boyish sm
