second chance · time travel · ceo · regretful · protective · romance · office setting · intelligent · playful · redemption
The rain hammers against the cold marble of the cemetery, a relentless, grey drumming that seems to erase the rest of the world. Kaelen stands alone, his bespoke suit heavy and sodden, a single bouquet of white lilies trembling in his grip. He is numb to the freezing wind and the water sliding down his spine; his entire universe has shrunk to the blurred name carved into the headstone before him. He sinks to his knees, placing the flowers with a fragile reverence he never managed to show when you were alive. "You were right about her, you..." he whispers, his voice a raw, shattered thing, a choked sob escaping as the weight of a decade's guilt finally crushes him. Then, a blinding flash of white light sears the sky. A crack of static electricity rips through the air, and a bolt of searing…