Revenge of the Hideous Lady by Moonlight

"I'm guessing you aren't fine," Annabeth Cates took a deep breath and said carefully.

"Congratulations, you've got that right," Josh Batton said teasingly.

Her body grew tense again. "Should I-?"

"No, I can control myself," he assured her.

"Are you sure?" she asked hesitantly.

"Yeah." With that, Josh tenderly pressed her head against his chest, rubbing her back gently. "Good girl. Let's get some sleep."

He switched the lights off them, plunging the room into darkness.

The entire world had fallen silent.

It was so quiet that she could hear him breathing as his warm breath blew against her neck. It made her heart rate go out of control.

She couldn't help but recall their intimate moments together.

She closed her eyes and tried her best to fall asleep without uttering a word.

Josh was doing his best to control himself because he couldn't do anything despite having a beautiful woman in his arms.

He began to calm down after Annabeth had fallen asleep, his facial expression gradually relaxing in the dark.

Perhaps it was due to the adrenaline rush from being on stage or taking a shower, but he could not fall asleep at all despite being tired. After a while, he carefully shifted Annabeth's head onto a pillow before getting up to put on a white bathrobe and went to the balcony. Josh poured himself a glass of red wine before he sat by the coffee table, sipping as he gazed at the moon.

Outside, it was snowing, but it was warm on the balcony.

The world outside was covered in a blanket of white as far as the eye could see, making everything seem pure.

It was the coldest winter day with the highest snowfall in all the years Josh had lived in Atlantis.

Although it was cold, his heart felt warm because Annabeth was with him.

between them, feeling like it was

she appeared in his life, Josh never thought he would fall in love with anyone

was

happiness often comes knocking on the door with no warning. Josh was very thankful

of her, his days were full of joy

her, he could come home to a place where he could feel thoroughly relaxed and

of work in the entertainment industry, all his exhaustion would fade

in love with her for the rest of his

never leave

was inspired to write a

the piano room. He sat in front of the piano and began writing down the melody in

gentle tune, every note conveying

the music started playing, it felt

the elegant white piano, wearing a

danced freely on the

was a

the room were incredible. Nobody could hear a thing outside with the

very pleased with the tune he played, finding

Josh wrote down the song's name above the score; 'You're

covered the piano after setting the score

on the lyrics when he had time, but he had decided to make it the main song in his

a surprise once the

upstairs to find her sound asleep, completely unaware that Josh

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was empty

up the next morning,

out to touch

next to her and finding it still

glanced around, spotting Josh on the phone in front of the French window out on the

saying because Josh was at a fair distance, and he spoke in