Chapter 0258

AIDEN

I struggled to keep my attention on the road. My eyes were on the dimly lit road ahead of me, but all I could think about and picture was Anastasia. The yellow lines blurred as my mind drifted to replay moments from our past and imagining what could have been.

I wished I could go back there and stay with her. I wished I could pull her in for a hug and tell her how much I missed her and at the same time rant about how mad I was that she had not even bothered for an explanation. My hands gripped the steering wheel tighter as I fought the urge to turn the car around and drive back to her.

I wanted to kiss her and tell her that when she left, she left with a part of me. The ache in my chest felt as fresh as it did five years ago, a constant reminder of the void she had left behind. Every song on the radio seemed to speak of lost love and missed opportunities, only intensifying my longing.

I had always known that I did not remain the same after Ana left my life, but I thought I had gotten over

her.

I thought my feelings of love and hurt and anger for her and over her abrupt absence in my life had be

left in the past, never to reoccur again. I had convinced myself that I had moved on, that the memories

our time together had faded like old photographs.

seeing her again had brought everything rushing back with

time had stood still, and for a moment, I was transported back to the first time I laid eyes on

quickening of my pulse-it was all there, as intense as

of

presence caught me completely off guard, and I found myself frozen in place, unable to look away. The boardroom faded into the background, and all I could see

of my mind tried to dismiss it as a trick of the light or a figment of my imagination. I had spent months after our breakup seeing her everywhere in coffee shops, on the street, in crowds-only to be disappointed each

but when I looked back In the same direction I had seen her, I was dismayed and

This time

She was real.

skipped beats or fluttered.

so much beauty and elegance, She had grown even

the years.

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still surprised me that she could still make my heart flutter. I was surprised that since I had

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