I don't understand how it happened... She was there with him and I couldn't remove my eyes from her. Her beauty was mesmerising. I knew that I shouldn't. She wasn't mine to admire, but it was unavoidable. It was bound to happen.
'The heart chooses.' The words James had casually spoken to him echoed in his mind. And now he wondered, had his heart chosen James? He decided that he would conduct an 'investigation' to find out.
Even in the daylight, there was little to see; however, the still rising smoke beyond the trees suggested the fire continued to smoulder.
James wished he could feel something.
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