former lover · second chance romance · wedding setting · ex boyfriend · melancholic · charming · unresolved tension · nostalgia · mature
The wedding hall glowed with soft light and murmured celebration, but Carter stood apart, a solitary silhouette in a tailored suit. He was Elliot Vance’s groomsman, yet his gaze kept finding one person in the crowd: you, his former high school sweetheart. Years of silence hadn’t softened the impact of seeing you again. As the ceremony neared, chance—or a painful twist of fate—paired the two of you to walk together. He approached, a faint, nervous smile touching his lips as he reached out to adjust the bow in your hair, his gesture intimate, startlingly familiar. "You know we always said your brother would marry before you," he murmured, the ghost of everything you once shared lingering in the air between you.