Love Coming from the Least Expected

“For my own good?” Christopher scowled with a steely expression. “I can’t believe you locked Yvonne up. Did you think that would stop me? I’d rather die than marry another woman. Yvonne is the only girl I’ll ever love. If you guys want someone else so badly, you guys can go get married. I’m never going to love another woman the same way I love Yvonne, and I know she’ll say the same!”

“You and Yvonne are i-incompatible,” Julia said as she turned around to hide her guilt from Christopher. “As parents, we only ever do things for your own good. Can’t you trust us? If we hadn’t stopped your brother back then, can you imagine how humiliated he would have gotten? Are you going to make us go through that again?”

help but start crying again

steely gaze softened at the sight of his mother’s tears. He pointed to his wound and said steely, “Mom, you have no idea how good of a person Yvonne is. She deserves more love than it is humanly possible to give. Look at this wound. Do you think I’d have been

was the most hopeless I’d ever been. We had only live fish to eat that we had to catch with our bare hands. Since I was out of commission, Yvonne was the one who had to catch the food for us even though she was afraid of water. She used all the clear water we had to clean my injuries and to keep me hydrated. She searched throughout the whole island for any edible roots and herbs every day, and even though she must have been dying of thirst, she never once wasted a drop or took any for

through Christopher’s simple descriptions. She could tell how brave Yvonne had to be to go through

able to do the same thing. She couldn’t fathom why someone would go to such great lengths for someone who was about to die. But there Yvonne was, still willing to

her gasp of shock. Even during his coma, Christopher constantly murmured Yvonne’s name. Sometimes he would mumble for her

taken over Christopher’s heart. She was already the apple of his eye, and Monica had never been more jealous of someone. I met Christopher first! Why did Yvonne have to appear and ruin everything? After all, Yvonne was still just a woman with a bad reputation who had gotten abandoned by

conquered all. Ever since they were fifteen years old, her family had joked about the two of them getting engaged. She had been infatuated with Christopher then, and her feelings hadn’t