Access Code: Happiness

“Experienced women are a great power,” Svetlana said, venomously. “They know exactly how to impress young and promising engineers.” The words hit me like a blow to the gut. “An old predator”—that’s what I looked like in her eyes. And I was just… just in love. At forty, like a silly girl.

But when he looks at me with his dark eyes, all prejudice crumbles to dust.