❝ do you mind if we stay like this for a little longer? ❞
“We can stay as long as you would like.” Elijah replies looking to Hayley’s face, the peace that seemed to resonate from her washed over him. “As I recall I owe you a peaceful place on the water and jean shorts.” He looks around the woods and the lake, not quite the swamps of New Orleans but it would do. “I suppose this is close enough for now.”














