In the Other Direction

Ten years ago I fell in love with a guy who couldn’t possibly have a future with me. We carefully hid our romance all summer, and then he left me with a broken heart. Now I have a strong marriage, a little son, and a successful husband, and I’m desperately afraid of losing all of this because of a long-forgotten affair and my first boyfriend, who has decided to burst back into my settled life.

“— You’re here again without an invitation? — that’s exactly what I said to him back then, and without any doubt he remembers it. His full lips stretch into a light smirk, while ten years of regret burns on mine…”