Her breath hitched. His predatory eyes desired and resisted all at once, and resisted they had for far too long. She could feel that desire seep into her own blood now and make it hard for her to breathe. She knew then, what they had between them could no longer be denied, no longer be suppressed. And so when his lips captured hers in a burning passion, she damned all reason and returned that kiss with the same yearning, letting herself be devoured by the man she got to call her husband. ~~~~~~~ After being forgotten mid-journey by her caravan back to their home land, she is left in the middle of nowhere with little to survive and nothing to get her back. But when a mysterious, fully veiled man finds her all alone in the middle of a desert connecting two lands, he escorts her back home only for things to turn ugly for her with people questioning her virtue. She suddenly realises that a place she once called home is no more a home to her. Unless she finds that man again to bear witness to her chastity and lift the stain of dishonour. But how can she? When she didn't even see his face... ⇔ Of Love and Pain, of Betrayal and Hardship ... A story of two souls entwined together by the threads of destiny.