Awakening Hearts

g the truth and confronting the reality of my shattered marriage. The Caldwell family's secrets hu

my thoughts. Sebastian, Alexander's enigmatic younger brother, had revealed the family's secrets to me, igniting

orbidden attraction, one that I struggled to comprehend. He was a member of the very family that had

watching the stars twinkle like distant promises. And then, as if d

said, his voice

my heart pounding in

ions swirling within them. "I didn't

e that had taken root within me. "None of this was y

But I brought you into it. I was the one

glow of the moonlight. "And I'm grateful for that. Y

en words. And then, he reached out, his fingers brushing ag

is voice husky. "There's so

ng with apprehension. What could he

hoed down the corridor. Sebastian's expression shif

like this," he sai

rashed over me. This was wrong – a forbidden attraction tha

w, I couldn't shake the feeling that something had shifted between

ty to Alexander and the growing feelings I couldn't deny for his brother. I found my

sting a warm glow over the vibrant flowers. Sebastian's gaze held mine, his

soft. "I've tried to stay away

y heart pounding i

gaze intense. "Because I know that what we're fe

me. "I can't deny that there's something between us, S

desire and regret within them. "I understand.

ight of our unspoken feelings hanging in t

ound of a distant voice reached our ears. We turned toward the source of th

voice filled with a mixtur

, his gaze unwav

esentation of the chasm that separated our worlds. And as Alexander's voice calle

ebastian said, hi

red from view, leaving me standing there in the gar

e boundaries of right and wrong. And as I stood there, a sense of inevitability settled over