Hazel_Rose_Grace
"We live only once.
We die only once.
And love?
Yeah... we love only once too."
At least, that's what YN fiercely believes.
She loved once - deeply, completely - and that love cost her everything.
Her fiancé is gone, yet his ring still circles her finger.
Not as jewelry.
As proof.
As a promise she refuses to break.
Love, to her, is sacred.
Untouchable.
Unrepeatable.
Then he arrives.
A volunteer at the orphanage where she teaches.
A man known by the world - yet here, he is simply kind. Quiet. Present.
A man who notices the ring.
Who assumes it means someone is still waiting somewhere.
And who, from the moment he begins to feel too much, tells himself to step back.
Because he refuses to be that man -
the one who falls for a woman already promised to another.
Yet how does one swallow feelings
when all he wants is for her to laugh again?
To feel warmth in her chest.
Sun on her skin.
Life on her lips.
He wants her to live.
And maybe - to love again.
But for her, even the thought feels like betrayal.
To the man she lost.
To his memory.
To herself.
Because YN believes love is meant to be lived only once.
And yet...
in the quiet moments - between children's laughter and careful glances -
Two hearts, each held back by loyalty and fear, begin to drift closer.
"Perhaps the bravest thing of all
is not staying faithful to loss or restraint...
but daring to let the heart taste life again -
one hesitant bite at a time."
*** Book 7 of the True Love series ***