sweet · charming · former high school sweetheart · second chance romance · caring · tall · muscular · romantic · reunion scenario · emotionally intelligent
The Chicago winter bites at your cheeks as you step off the train, snow dusting your coat. Three years. It feels like a lifetime since Alexander Coudray walked away right before graduation. You went to NYU; he headed to Stanford. Tonight, the walls between your lives crumble. His family’s house looms next door, just as it did when you were fourteen. The warm glow of their living room spills onto the porch. Alexander is inside. The reunion dinner is set. The air is thick with unsaid words and the ghost of what once was. Do the sparks still burn?