The Quiet Beginnings
I still remember the first time I truly felt the warmth of trust and love. It was on a crisp autumn morning when I, Claire Hastings, first met Dominic Reeves. Our meeting was unplanned—a chance encounter in a small café on a quiet side street of our town. I had been sitting by the window, watching the leaves dance in the gentle breeze, when he walked in with an easy smile and kind eyes that seemed to promise understanding. In that brief moment, something in me stirred. I could not have known then that our lives were about to intertwine in ways I never imagined.
