Chapter 5 The future

After a breakfast of bread, cheese and dried fruit, Lela went out to the farm yard and began her daily chores. The warm sun shone down upon her shoulders as she fed the chickens and gathered the eggs. As the warm fresh spring breeze blew through the farmyard Lela's thoughts wandered. She stood on the edge of a meadow with thick emerald, green grass. In the meadow is a small babbling stream with large weeping willow trees scattered along the bank. Out of the shadows on the other end of the meadow a tall muscular young man stepped in to watch her as if he was the king stag.

The young man began to gracefully walk towards Lela with his dark gray eyes locked on hers. Lela was paralyzed by his gaze. The young man approached Lela as a flirtatious breeze rustled his silky chestnut brown hair that gradually fell down the back of his lightly tanned neck. Lela's loving eyes fell down his fit, strong body then back up to his reached out hand; Aire Finnely, her love, her heart. Abrupt shouts shattered her daydream and Aire's presence drifted away on the breeze.

Eros was walking towards the barn shouting for their father Julius Hatcher, with his broad shoulders back, tan muscles tense in a confrontational posture, and his bright blue eyes flashing with anger as his unruly blonde curls flew in all directions.