Love's Fate (Love Trilogy #1) Read Online Free

her, but her smile was the most beautiful I had ever seen. I stared, wishing I could hear her laughter. Wondering what had been said to make her laugh.
    She was…stunning. That was the only word for it. Her long dark hair was pulled back into a ponytail but still reached nearly half way down her back. She wore a simple t-shirt and jeans with an apron tied around her tiny waist. A movie star decked out for the red carpet could not have held my attention as powerfully as this girl did. I couldn’t look away.
    I could only see her profile, but I could tell she was by far the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. Even more beautiful than the distant memory of a woman I had seen so many years ago, a woman who had become my standard that no real girl could ever live up to.  A memory of a face so perfect I had convinced myself it couldn’t have been real, just a blending of reality and fantasy.
    But now as I stared across this over-crowded room I realized that the perfection I had dreamt of didn’t even measure up to the beautiful waitress who stood before me now. Something I would have never believed to be possible until this moment. Then she looked at me.
    At least a hundred people stood in this room between us, but she looked right at me. Our eyes locked. I knew I should look away. I shouldn’t stare like this. What would she think?
    But her emerald eyes mesmerized me. I couldn’t have looked away if I wanted to, and I couldn’t have wanted anything less. I had only seen eyes like hers once before.
    Obviously my mind was playing tricks on me now. This waitress I was staring at couldn’t possibly be as perfect as I was seeing her. Some long lost memory must have been overlapping my senses, making her appear to have all the features of the perfect woman from my dreams.
    I studied her face, amazed by it s perfection and then I realized how I must have looked staring at her this way and almost felt embarrassed until it occurred to me… she was staring too. We were both frozen with our eyes locked on each other like no one else was in the room.
    I wondered if I should go over to her. Obviously she was looking at me.
    Why was she looking at me? Was it only because I was looking at her?
    I wanted to talk to her, but I didn’t know how to begin. Suddenly I wished for the first time that I had more practice at approaching women. I wanted to walk to her but my feet seemed cemented to the floor. I couldn’t will my body to move any more than I could force my eyes away from hers. I was powerless, unable to focus on anything else, even the simple act of moving one foot in front of the other.
    “Dude, did you hear me ? They said you have a call. ” Charlie’s voice finally broke through my stupor.
    I made my way across the room to the counter where the phone was , not taking my eyes off her.
    Why was she still looking at me?
    Was she smiling?
    I reached the counter and took the phone that way being held out toward me.
    “Hello” I said absently, still watching her.
    “Michael, don’t hang up. It’s about your mother” My heart sank as my father’s voice resounded in my ears.
    There was only one reason my father would be calling me to discuss my mother. The only reason strong enough to break through the mysterious gravitational force I felt toward this woman.
     

Chapter 3: Blue Eyes
     
     
    “Katherine,” my roommate Amy whined from the other side of the bathroom door “Please! I need to get in there.”
    I ran the brush through my hair one more time then finally gave up and pulled it into a ponytail. I swore to myself that I would cut it all off soon.
    “Sorry,” I apologized relinquishing the bathroom to her.
    “ I was just trying to do something with my hair.” I explained in a disgusted tone.
    “Like you could be anything but drop-dead gorgeous!” she teased “You could shave your head and you’d still look better than me on my best hair day!”
    I rolled my eyes. That was the farthest thing from the