Chapter 17 - Towards Her Freedom

At first, she thought that she was imagining. Against the darkness of the night, with soft flurries of snow falling over it, the stag looked ethereal. The stag blinked his eyes and met her stare. For a moment, she took in its fathomless gaze across the fence, made mesmerizing by the soft glow of the yellow light of the porch. Something softened in her heart and her shoulders, which were so tense, relaxed and her hands dropped to her side. A smile bloomed on her lips as she watched the stag across the space between them.