He lowered his gaze and looked at her. Those eyes, no longer shrouded in past gloom, now carried a brightness, tinged with a hint of tender affection.
Hannah curved her lips into a smile, deliberately not answering him, "I didn't say anything at all."
With her hands behind her back and her head tilted to the side, her eyes filled with laughter, sparkling and radiant like starlight.
"I heard everything," Arnold Simmons caught her hand and held it in his palm. Emerging from the shadows of his past, he appeared entirely alive, brimming with vitality.
She averted her gaze, but the corners of her lips couldn't help but lift. A blush spread across her cheeks and reached her ears before she finally looked up at him.
It took only a second for Arnold Simmons to surrender, chuckling softly, "Yes, I'm yours."
I was before, I am now, and I will be in the future.
