My husband doesn’t want me anymore.
The first man I ever loved is back in town and would do anything to have me.
Torn apart by grief, my marriage has been slowly crumbling for years now. I know my caring, loving husband is still there somewhere, but he’s hidden by the shell of a man who has replaced him since the day our lives were turned upside down.
I can handle the lack of affection.
I can hold onto our vows even as he breaks them one by one.
But when Reese comes back into town to teach at the school I work at, I find I can’t hide my pain from the boy I grew up with.
He sees right through me, down to the bone, and he won’t accept my pathetic attempts to tell him that I’m fine.
He won’t accept anything but having me for his own.
The man I married, or the man I lost.
That’s the choice I have to make.
And if I can’t decide, I’ll lose them both.