Consolation Stories

He came to her when she was at her lowest. Her face was stained with the tears she had been shedding for days. He looked at her helplessly. A slight sigh escaped from his mouth as he kneeled down beside her, picking her up and brushing the hair away from her face. As he was looking into her glassy blue eyes he took her left hand in his, kissed it, and slipped the plain gold band off her finger. He placed it on the nightst...