Prologue

You look so peaceful. So beautiful. Your eyes closed, eclipsed as always by your thick dark eyebrows. I reach up and gently stroke your cheek as I have done so many times before. Your skin is like soft silk beneath my fingertips. The image of your face will always be etched in my memory. You are my love, my one, my only. And I can't believe I might lose you.

part 1