Henry walked out of his office that afternoon, thinking about home. Actually, thinking about Elodie.
She had been on his mind lately and he didn’t know if that was a good thing or not.
His heart longed for her when she wasn’t near. His heart beat for her when he thought about her like a deer panting for the nearest source of water to quench the thirst he was feeling.
But he didn’t want to accept it. How could he, when he had messed up badly and gotten some other woman pregnant and even had the guts to bring her into the house?
Maybe that had been the biggest mistake of his life. But at some point, Sophia had been the love of his life as well. She was the one he’d love first and she was the one who had shown him what it meant to love. So he couldn’t push her aside when she showed up after all these years.
He didn’t go home after work that day. His friends had called to meet at their usual spot and normally, he would have rejected the offer but with the things on his mind, he needed a
