Burning Passion: Love Never Die

“What’s amiss

Emerging from the kitchen, Millie noticed Marcus standing by the bed, his demeanor tinged with frostiness.

“You’ve got a knife tucked under your pillow. Is someone causing you trouble?”

A glint of steel sharpened in Marcus’ gaze. He recalled the unease that had plagued him the previous night, an inscrutable intuition whispering of looming danger hovering menacingly over Millie’s horizon.

“Fortunately, I managed to evade him on the journey back here,” Millie disclosed.

“Yet, last night, he found his way into my home. Yet, I remained vigilant and exploited his unfamiliarity with the layout in the darkness. I struck first, inflicting injury. He fled,”

With Marcus’ arrival, Millie laid bare the peril she had encountered.

gleaned the details of the danger that had shadowed Millie’s return, Her

of weariness lingered in Millie’s eyes, a

cold blade. Since the assailant’s scheme

With

growing increasingly grim. In an instant, his demeanor shifted

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to your lifeless body. When you encounter such peril, why did you not inform me

nonchalant demeanor,

began to speak, hesitated, then

anger flared within Marcus’ eyes, creasing his forehead

anger was real and palpable. Millie’s strong independence had always been a point of contention for

a hesitant moment, she mustered the courage to approach him, gently prying the knife from his grip and placing it on the table. Then she encircled him in her arms, attempting to soften

night, I thought of calling you, but we