For What Still Burns
Aria
The car was the first final straw.
It appeared out of nowhere one morning, sleek and shining in the morning light outside the bakery. A soft red convertible, the exact make and model I’d once mentioned in passing during a summer picnic with Damien, years ago, when the world was simpler and my heart was still his.
I didn’t touch it. Didn’t even open the door.
But the gifts didn’t stop.
Every morning, there was something new.
First, the flowers. Wild arrangements, too many to count—peonies, garden roses, rare orchids that looked like they belonged in a museum. Then the chocolates, the absurdly expensive kind, made with truffle oil and sea salt, each one wrapped like treasure. Then the poe
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