Chapter 1

 

'Why have you been following me?' Jess questioned the lone stranger as she ran up the hill to reach him.

'I was surprised to see another like myself I had not known about,' the man said, turning toward her as he took down his hooded cloak.

Jess stared into his striking green eyes, noticing that they matched her own eye colouring, and was left almost speechless. That was where the resemblance between them ended, however. Where her face shape was small and perfectly oval, he had a hard chiselled chin and a light layer of hair that covered his lower face, a proud hawk like nose and high cheek bones, his features adding up to give him an impressive, ruggedly handsome look that Jess tried to ignore though she felt butterflies form inside her stomach. She did not want to be distracted from her questioning of him, but could not help but push back a curl behind her ears, from her mass of flaming red hair that had come undone from running up the hill.

The mystery man, in turn, watched her every movement, giving her an intense look that she did not know quite know what to make of. He looked at her all over, from her petite womanly frame to her face with her soft-looking lips and little button nose, to her big, striking, deep green eyes that could control men. He looked intensely into the depths of her eyes, standing almost completely still in front of her.