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.

and apprehension, Marcus gleaned the details of the danger that had shadowed Millie’s

of weariness lingered in Millie’s eyes, a testament to

Marcus’ gaze settled upon the cold blade. Since the

longer. With you here, I

Marcus’ countenance growing increasingly grim. In an instant, his

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

observing Millie’s seemingly nonchalant demeanor, Marcus’ indignation

then

anger flared within Marcus’ eyes, creasing his forehead

always been a point of

him, gently prying the knife from his

it from you intentionally. Last night, I thought of calling you, but we were apart,