“Randy! Please be careful!”
“It’s all right, Angelique. It’s perfectly safe.” He smiled and waved. “Just watch.”
She held her breath as he took a running start, then jumped across a chasm that seemed too wide for a normal person to jump across. He’d promised her that the power of the wind would keep him from falling. It looked good after all. And then. . .
Barely a foot away from the other side, he started to plummet. She fell to her knees, sobbing. This couldn’t be. It wasn’t possible. “Randy. . .” Nothing in her life would ever matter again. Monique nudged her, unaware of why her mistress was consumed by despair. Angelique hugged the puppy, her tears soaking into the soft fur.
“What’s wrong?” she heard someone say.
“Randy. . .” That was the only word she seemed to be able to say.
A hand stroked her hair. “I’m right here.”
She looked up into his eyes. “But I saw you fall. . .”
“Fall? Where? The last time I fell was when I fell in love with you.”
She blinked and looked around her. They were nowhere near a chasm of any kind. Monique was chasing a butterfly in the park. It must have been a dream. No, a nightmare. Randy would never do anything like that. She wrapped her arms around him and put her whole heart into her kiss. She’d never tell him what she had dreamed. She just wanted to be in his arms and never wanted to let go.
