Bonus Chapter 5

In all her many years, Kate had never felt such a compelling force, driving her to madness. She had never been one to reverie over a man, never one to run from such cravenly human emotions and certainly never one to drive like this, so obtrusively, on a road to nowhere.

She was over the speed limit, daring the motion of the wind to blur the image outside her window. Through the color of her eyes, she could see the starry sky laying oppressed by the gathering storm clouds from the horizon.

The road turned here and there, up a steep land, and continued with the quietness of the wind together with the openness of the sky. She drove for a few hours with the lingering thought that for the very first time, she might have found her weakness. Her frustratingly effective weakness. She had already witnessed how she lost her strength in front of him, and how she failed to compel him.

It would give her peace of mind to find a reason, an infallible explanation for this unnatura