The love I'd promised myself to find
Rhona grew up watching her mother's marriage fall apart.
After her parents' separation, she decided not to let her mom's love life destroy hers and promised herself to find a love that's worth her decision
Then she meets Adrian Cole at Westbridge University.
A dark, handsome, confident, intelligent, w wealthy, and impossible-to-comprehend young man
Given with all his attributes, Adrian slowly becomes the person Rhona never believed she'd fall for but his mixed signals, cocky nature, manipulative act leaves her with more questions than answers, just when she started to believe that there might be something real between them even when they were not dating Adrian leaves her to pick up the broken pieces after months and weeks of giving all her love and duties to him
Years later, Rhona and Adrian had become successful lawyers, and they met again without recognizing each other at a club, but the connection felt strangely familiar, and before Rhona could understand why, she found herself drawn to the man she had promised herself she'd forgotten
That leaves Rhona to decide whether some love stories deserve a second chance or whether the love she promised herself she'd find was never Adrian.
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Chapter: The things he didn't say*Rhona*Rhona woke up to the smell of toast burning.For a second she had no idea where she was. The ceiling was the wrong shade of white. The light coming through the blinds was thin and grey. Then she felt the sheets against her bare shoulders, and the ache in her body that was the good kind of ache, and it all came back like a wave that had been waiting politely for her to open her eyes.Adrian's room. Ken's birthday. The kitchen counter.She pulled the blanket up to her chin and stared at the ceiling and let herself smile, just for a moment, before the smile got complicated.The bed beside her was empty. The pillow still had the dent of his head in it. She put her hand there and it was cold.Somewhere down the hall, a cupboard slammed. Then a voice, low and tight. Ken's, she thought. Then Adrian's, quieter. She couldn't make out the words, only the tone, which was the tone of two people arguing and trying very hard not to sound like it.She sat up slowly and found her top on the f
Last Updated: 2026-10-30
Chapter: The night we weren't supposed to have *Rhona*October in New York had a way of making everything feel like a decision.The leaves on campus went orange and then brown. The air got sharp. People started carrying coffee cups with both hands. Rhona noticed all of it from the third floor window of the apartment while she pretended to read a casebook about civil procedure.She had read the same paragraph four times."You know that book isn't going to turn its own page," Priya said from the couch, not looking up from her laptop."I'm reading.""You're staring. There's a difference."Rhona closed the book. "I'm thinking.""Same thing, with worse posture."Priya had a way of saying things like that, light enough that you couldn't get properly offended, true enough that you couldn't argue. Rhona had missed that in the first week of school when she'd thought Priya was just the loud roommate from Jersey. Now Priya was the person who made sure she ate dinner."It's been two months," Rhona said."Since what? Since you asked him for s
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Chapter: DistanceAfter that conversation, things between Adrian and Rhona became different in a way that Adrian couldn't quite articulate.They were still together. They still saw each other. But there was this space between them that hadn't been there before. Like they were both waiting to see what the other person would do.Adrian tried harder. He set boundaries at work. He left the office by 8 PM instead of staying until midnight. He made actual plans with Rhona and kept them.But Rhona still seemed distant. Like she was going through the motions but not really there.By the end of July, Adrian could feel it coming. Could feel the ending approaching like a storm you see on the horizon.One evening, they were at Rhona's apartment. Priya was out, and they had the place to themselves. They'd ordered pizza and were supposed to watch a movie, but mostly they were just sitting on the couch not talking."Talk to me," Adrian said finally."About what?""About whatever's going on in your head. You've been q
Last Updated: 2026-10-24
Chapter: SummerBy June, Adrian and Rhona had settled into something that felt almost normal. Summer internships kept them both busy. Adrian was at the law firm doing real work now, and Rhona was at a nonprofit that handled family law cases. They were both exhausted most days, but it was the good kind of exhausted — the kind that came from doing something that mattered. They saw each other on weekends mostly. Sometimes they studied together. Sometimes they just wanted to not think about work and did normal couple things — went to movies, got dinner, walked around the city. One Saturday in mid-June, Rhona came over to Adrian's apartment. Ken had gone out, which seemed deliberate. They ordered Chinese food and settled on the couch to watch something mindless. Somewhere between the appetizers and the main course, Rhona had shifted closer to Adrian, and her head was on his shoulder. It was casual and comfortable, the kind of physical intimacy that had become their normal. Adrian wasn't watching the T
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Chapter: RedemptionAdrian hadn't planned to spend so much time with Zara.It just happened. After Rhona stopped talking to him, after she'd made it clear that she didn't trust him and thought he was like her father, Adrian needed somewhere to be that wasn't his apartment with Ken asking him if he was okay, or the library where Rhona might show up, or anywhere that reminded him of the life he'd been building.Zara was always happy to see him. She never asked questions about Rhona. She just existed in his space without judgment, and that was enough.They studied together. They got coffee. They went to lunch. It was routine and it was safe and it didn't require Adrian to think about what he'd lost.Ken noticed immediately."You're spending a lot of time with Zara," Ken said one evening, watching Adrian get ready to go meet her."We're friends.""I know you're friends. But you're spending like, a concerning amount of time with her. Are you sure that's a good idea?""Why wouldn't it be?""Because Rhona will
Last Updated: 2026-10-24
Chapter: ForwardBy mid-February, life had started to feel normal again.Rhona's dad was doing better. Physical therapy was kicking his ass, but he was doing it. He complained about the diet restrictions and the medication side effects, but he was following the doctor's orders. He was trying. Actually trying in a way that suggested he meant what he'd said about being present.Rhona went to his house once a week for dinner. Sometimes Adrian came with her. Sometimes it was just her and her mom and her siblings. It was building something that resembled what a family was supposed to be, even if it was fractured and complicated.School was picking up. February meant midterms were coming, and Rhona found herself spending more time in the library than she was in her dorm room. Adrian was in the same boat — his internship was taking up a lot of time, but he was learning a lot. He'd already been given real projects to work on, cases he was researching, briefs he was writing.One evening about three weeks into
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