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.

all the little things between them, feeling like it

his life, Josh never thought he would fall in love with anyone else apart from Xyla Quest, especially not his

was strange

would unexpectedly appear in one's life and make one feel happy. And happiness often comes knocking on the door with no warning.

of her, his days were full of joy

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

industry, all his exhaustion

would be in love with

never

he was inspired to write a

to the piano room. He sat in front of the piano and began writing down the melody in his mind in a notebook before he started playing

very gentle tune,

it felt as if

front of the elegant white

freely on

was a

were incredible. Nobody could hear a thing outside with the door and

tune he played, finding absolutely nothing that needed

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

the piano after setting the score aside and

when he had time, but he had decided to make it the

a surprise once

he headed back upstairs to find her sound asleep,

***

side was empty

the

reaching out to touch the

her and finding it

the phone in front of the French window out on the

couldn't hear what he was saying because Josh was at