Chapter 19 Burn

• They drove out to a remote area and parked near the trees. They walked into the woods with a shovel, a tank of gasoline, booze and her torn wedding dress. They couldn't do it at the motel's premises, it would attract attention.
• He gathered some wood and piled it. She put her dress on top of the pile, poured some gasoline on it and lit it up. The fire burned brightly under the night sky.
• She looked into the fire in silence. It was a symbol. The end of her life with Armand. The love of her life. The first man she had ever loved with her heart and soul. She wondered if there is still any trace of that love left after all she had been through, because the heart is the ultimate betrayer. Time and time again he showed her who he was, somehow she always found it in her heart to forgive him.