L is for Loved

Apr 14
NabanitaDhar
A house with white picket fences and bow-windows.

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A radiant daughter named Zoe in their arms.

A veranda with two easy chairs where they had morning tea while admiring their very own rose garden.

Chirping birds and butterflies, as if out of a fairy tale, dancing on their front porch.

Barbecue nights with jazz playing in the background and them basking in the moonlight daze.

That’s what Eve saw in Kevin’s eyes, that’s what she envisioned her future as. She felt loved and thus said ‘I do!’

When it was Kevin’s turn he smiled for in her eyes he saw his future, one that he had waited and worked for five long years.

He saw opportunity and abundance in those hazel colored eyes.

He saw heaps of paper as he looked through her eyes, paper that could buy every luxury in the world. He saw money.

Through his lust cloaked eyes he saw inheritance in his not too distant future.

He saw Eve on the ledge of a cliff just moments before he pushed her to sure death.

He saw a life of excesses and for that he smiled.

He smiled, took Eve’s hands in his and said ‘I do’.

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L is for the emotions of feeling loved and lust….and that’s the tone of today’s tale…


Linking this post for A to Z Challenge. As I promised in the theme reveal post, as part of the Challenge I’m going to write short stories with one or more emotions beginning with the alphabet of the day as the prompt or central idea for the post. Hope you enjoy the challenge!

Linking this to UBC too.

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43 thoughts on “L is for Loved”

  6. Oh, Naba, you think this could be true somewhere? Scares me. You seem to have bellowed thoughts in my mind, to stay

  18. What a twist, I hope she will survive through and see the actual intention of this man. At least if he lusted after her I would have forgiven him 😉 but what he has is greed for her money. Another wonderfully told story, Naba 🙂

  19. Beautiful and realistic story. 2 persons deciding to marry (or do business together, or be friends, or …) could be doing so for entirely different reasons, in this story diametrically opposite reasons.

  20. I hope she sees his true colors before it is too late, lovely post. Scary to think how some people's mind works, he is a Bad Man 🙁

  21. What a contrast. I hope she looks again into his eyes and sees his evil plan. Poor Eve.

  24. Holy crap. I did not see THAT coming. Love the twist! I feel sorry for Eve. Hopefully she wises up and pushes him instead. ♥

  25. Yowza. That had to hurt. Probably the wrong question to ask when I'm surrounded by women (did I also add the word amazing?), why is the man always evil 😛

  28. Beautifully narrated. Love can be beautiful but also have calculated moves. It's tragic when greed dilute love like this.

  29. oh…wow..it's beautifully narrated…in the beginning I couldn't imagine it would end this way . Different people have different reasons for feeling loved 😉

  33. Wow..nabanita…Awesome..They r both in love but with different things… One with all things romantic and other with everything that is materialistic and crude…

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