In Her Eyes

Twenty-eight year old psychic Samantha Lopez had fallen hard for Michael Maxwell as much for the fact that she hadn't been able to read him as that he was good-looking, charming and made her feel beautiful and special. However, weeks after their marriage Sam realized that her husband's stark and lifeless house suited him perfectly. How could she have thought a man who could be happy in such surroundings would be a warm and loving husband? Was she so blinded by love that she couldn't see beyond the obvious? One of her grandfather's sayings came to mind. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." If she had seen his house, and if she had met Michael's mother, Winifred, before she and Michael married, would she still have gone through with it? Winifred was a cold person, living in a cold house. Michael also lived in a cold house, one he had not taken her to see before they married. Had she seen him in these surroundings first, would she have rushed into the marriage or would she have backed off? She didn't really know the answer to that question. Especially now that she'd had a glimpse of the temper he had kept hidden from her until last night. How well did she really know this man? Where was the funny, considerate person she had met just a few short weeks ago? He had wooed her and won her heart, but it was obvious she still had a lot to learn about him. Their honeymoon had been perfect, all she could have wished for. Since they'd come home, however, he was often distant and unreachable. She had tried to tell herself that it was an adjustment period and that things would get back to normal soon. She was no longer sure what normal was. With a chill she recalled her grandmother's words of long ago: "Sam, don't ever let yourself be fooled by the outside." Those words were forgotten until now, and she was afraid the outside might have fooled her after all. Had she been looking at Michael with her eyes and not with her heart? And then there had been the dream where her best friend's dead grandmother warned Sam, "You will journey to the San Francisco Peaks to the north and the west, one of the Four Sacred Mountains. There you will find many answers to the questions in your heart. However, you must be aware that, because you are out of balance with your true nature, you will also find great darkness. This darkness will blind you from the truth until you find your inner peace and harmony once again."