Autumn’s POV
My heartbeat can sound like an echo, but even if it is only a faint echo of yours I have the courage to be myself. In a large palace a “fire” like mine would die in the drafts, yet in a tiny cottage even the smallest of fires can keep a home warm. I am warm with you and my heart beats louder than the crashing waves.
I thought that as I looked at Merlin. He was sitting beside me on the stool, his hand was close to mine but I knew that he was not going to hold it until I asked him to. This was the time that I had to make the choice and the move. Because I had been the one that had pushed him away. He would never actually get to feel what Rosalyn had told me. But then she did not know half of the story only.
The doctor asked me to pull up my top and she covered my pubes with a
