ex-wife · childhood friends · single mother · regretful · desperate · romantic drama · reconciliation · protective · mature · emotional
Rain streaks the window of the small apartment you've called home for ten years. The door creaks open, and there she stands—Alexandra, soaked and shivering, a toddler clinging to her leg and twins cradled in her arms. Her eyes, the same hazel you fell in love with as a kid, search yours with a desperate hope. "Hi..." she breathes, voice cracking like the silence you've held since she left.