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.

again had brought everything rushing back with startling

as if time had stood still, and for a moment, I was transported back to the first time

my stomach, the quickening of my

of

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

part 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

of the retained employees hadn't looked like my ex-girlfriend, but when I looked back In the same direction I had seen her, I was dismayed and at the same

This time

She was real.

heart skipped beats or fluttered. But it was not seeing her again that

was the way she radiated with so much beauty and

the years.

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effect on me. Infact, it still surprised me that she could still make my heart flutter. I was surprised that since I had seen her again, she

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