Seven Years to Ash
Through tears, she said, "Ash, if I had not gotten so close to Rowan back then, would this happiness have been mine? We would have had a lovely baby too..."
"Nina." I interrupted her, looking at the lisianthus in her hands. "There are no ifs in this world. And I do not like lisianthus. I only like mermaid roses."
Nina looked utterly shattered. In the end, she gave a silent smile, set the things down, and left.
Before she went, she told me that Rowan had been arrested for suspected theft. During police questioning, they discovered that he knew the driver who had hit me.
Digging deeper revealed that my accident had not been an accident at all; it had been planned.