A Thousand Letters

Sometimes your life is split by a single decision.
I’ve spent
every day of the last seven years regretting mine: he left, and I didn’t
follow. A thousand letters went unanswered, my words like petals in the
wind, spinning away into nothing, taking me with them.
But now he’s back.
I
barely recognize the man he’s become, but I can still see a glimmer of
the boy who asked me to be his forever, the boy I walked away from when I
was young and afraid.
Maybe if he’d come home under better
circumstances, he could speak to me without anger in his voice. Maybe if
I’d said yes all those years ago, he’d look at me without the weight of
rejection in his eyes. Maybe if things were different, we would have
had a chance.
One regretted decision sent him away. One painful journey brought him back to me. I only wish I could keep him.
*A contemporary romance inspired by Jane Austen’s Persuasion*