Summerhaven

Chapter 2

It was a warm summer day as the lord of Summerhaven paced in front of his library window. He raked a strong hand through his sandy blond locks and stopped to look out the window at the rows of orange and pear trees he had lining his estate.

“What are you thinking about?” his wife said from behind him.

Hank spun around and went to his wife.

“Just the girls Joyce. Buffy is almost over the marrying age and Dawn has yet to begin it. I’m worried about Buffy. She’s 18 now and not one eligible man has taken her fancy,” he said putting his arms around her.

“We promised her she could marry for love. She is still young. Don’t pressure her,” Joyce said a hint of anger in her voice.

“I won’t pressure her. I just want what’s best for her.”

“She will find it in time. For now let’s just relish in both of our daughters living here in our home,” she finished placing a kiss on her husband’s mouth.


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“William? Where are you?”

“I’m over here dad,” William answered from inside the stable.

“Where have you been all day?” his father demanded.

“I was walking with Lady Buffy,” William replied.

William’s father Giles Leslie smiled his anger vanishing; he knew how much William enjoyed his time with Buffy.

“Are you in love with her?” Giles asked.

“Father? Why do you ask?”

“Because you have the same look on your face that I had whenever I thought of your mom,” Giles said as a sad look crossed his features.

“We are friends Father. Not much can happen when I’m not of the same noble blood as she.”

“You never know son. Some things are meant to happen. If you truly love her then it will be.”

Giles ruffled his son’s hair and slapped him lightly on the back before leaving the stables.

William watched his father’s retreating figure walk away and shook his head.

“Aye dad I love her.”

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It was after sunset when Buffy finally pulled herself into her room. She was abuzz with all the feelings she had swirling in her body for William. It didn’t matter to her that he was her stable boy. It didn’t matter to her that he wasn’t an owner of a title or huge lands. It only mattered that he loved her. And she knew he did even though he hadn’t said it.

Buffy didn’t know when her feelings had changed for him. William had always been in her life. He was brought to Summerhaven when he was 6 Buffy was 4 and they became instant friends. Always playing together. She was more a tomboy back then. Playing in the creek and climbing trees. There was nothing William could do that Buffy didn’t and she made sure he knew that.

She knew when William’s feelings for her changed. It was subtle at first. They would lock gazes from across the room, William’s eyes would hold steady with hers until she felt her heart pounding in her chest and a deep blush to taint her cheeks. William would watch her without her knowing it. Standing beneath the balcony to her room, watching her in her window seat as she dragged her silver handled brush through her long locks. Walking through the garden with her little sister Dawn. Running and frolicking her long blond hair glittering in the sunlight, her feet bare.

Buffy smiled and touched her hand to her lips as she thought of their kiss.

My first kiss, she thought a slight blush creeping up her neck.

Buffy sat down on her bed when she heard little rocks hitting her balcony doors.

Buffy jumped up and went to the doors and opened them. On her balcony stood William. His platinum hair almost glowing in the clear moonlight. His lean legs molded by the dark blue breeches he wore. His white shirt open at the top revealing his sun bronzed skin underneath.

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