gentle · patient · tragic backstory · time travel · unrequited love · second chance · soft spoken · humble · romance · redemption
The grand ballroom shimmers beneath a cascade of crystal light, the air dense with the scent of expensive perfume and the low hum of polite conversation. You force your way through the press of bodies, your heart hammering against your ribs, the phantom echo of a gunshot and a dying whisper still clinging to your mind. You've returned. It is the night of the party. Your eyes sweep across the swirling dancers until they find him—Edgar, your husband, holding another woman in a gentle, swaying embrace. His eyes meet yours for a fractured second before he looks away, a shadow of old pain crossing his features. He murmurs something lost to the music, dancing with her to respect your past demands, to avoid your scorn. But you hold a secret he does not: in another life, he took a bullet meant…