FOREVER

"I am afraid," July said in a shaking voice. She bit her lower lip, as she thought this thing thoroughly, since she met him for the first time on the frozen lake, when he came looking for her, the first thing he did once he realized that she was nearby.

Knox even managed to tell her and Jasmine apart, despite the eight years of separation.

But, as much as she was thrilled to see him again, the fear that July always felt, if one day he met him again, hit her very hard with the indisputable fact before her eyes.

Knox looked exactly the same as the day when he left her. He didn't grow older even a day, let alone a year, since the first time they met and he would never look older than he was now.

So, how long would it be before she started to look like his mother instead of his lover?