She ran from the one thing she couldn't survive losing. He waited without asking her to come back.
Five years of silence. One wedding. One slow dance that dismantles everything she told herself she'd moved past.
Cole Merritt was the kind of love Lena couldn't rationalize - too consuming, too real, too permanent. So she left before it could destroy her. But some loves don't dissolve with distance. They just wait.
Tonight, under garden lights and jasmine, she runs out of reasons.
Second chances don't announce themselves. They just quietly refuse to leave.
