Love's Faithful Vow

Donovan McMichaels:

She doesn’t know it yet, but Ella Parker will be mine. She rebuffed me all those years ago, when I was merely a young college freshman, saying she didn’t date students. I accepted that and committed myself to become her equal. Someone she deserves. Someone to show her how special she is. But that doesn't mean I've gotten over the sting of her rejection.

It hasn’t been easy, biding my time this way. I’ve had to make sacrifices, as have others, but once I have her in my arms, I know it will have been worth it. From the first moment I laid eyes on her, something sparked deep inside me. An obsession, one might say. I simply call it love’s faithful vow.

Ella Parker:

I’ve ached for Donovan’s touch for so long, but I could never tell a soul, least of all him. He was my student, and that’s simply a line I would never cross no matter the cost to my heart. He even asked me out once way back when. It physically hurt to turn him down, but I had no idea that the worst was yet to come.

Now he’s a colleague, and I’m sure he’s forgotten all about the little crush he had on me. Still, the way his eyes linger on me just a little too long in staff meetings, or that he’s always near…I wonder. Could love’s faithful vow prove to be the next great love story or nothing but a tragedy worthy of the wise old bard?