Diamonds and Deceptions

Moonlight, coupled with longing andloneliness, did strange things topeople, Tyler thought.

The moon was the loneliest of the heavenly bodies.He could feel its pull right now. Could feel, too, thepull of the woman standing before him.

For the past nine months he'd lived every daywith an emptiness he hadn't known what to dowith. Tonight, for a small amount of time, he'dforgotten about that emptiness. ...