The Lost Princess of the Orphanage
I whispered, watching his pupils widen as if to drink in the sight of me, “I found out that rejection recovery like mine – it can only happen when you find your second chance.”
For an instant, one perfect silver-spun instant, we faced each other. Then the words – your second chance – died away on the air, and so did the moment between us.
Vincent tore himself back from me, knocking into the whiteboard in his haste, turning his back on me and breathing hard.
I felt a crack run through my heart like a faultline. “Vincent?” I asked, hearing a pathetic little warble in my voice.
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