TanSeven
#1 secondchance
They grew up together beneath the same summer skies,
two children who didn't know that some bonds become destiny
long before you understand what love means.
Elena Brooks loved Liam Walker the way the moon loves the ocean-
quietly, endlessly, from a distance he never thought to look toward.
He was her first laughter, her first comfort,
and the first person who ever made her feel invisible
without meaning to.
He didn't notice the cracks in her smile.
He didn't hear the silence she kept swallowing
when he chose everyone else before her.
Not until the day she walked away without looking back.
Years passed.
Elena returned not as the girl he remembered,
but as a woman who built a life he was never part of-
a wedding ring on her finger,
children chasing her footsteps,
and a softness in her eyes that no longer belonged to him.
Liam realized the truth too late:
you can't hold onto someone you never reached for.
Now she stands in front of him again-
familiar and unreachable,
a beautiful reminder of everything he lost
and everything she finally found.
He loved her too late.
She learned to stop waiting.
And in the space between what they were
and what they've become,
lies the question neither dares to ask:
Can a heart ever return to the place that once broke it,
or must some stories end even when love doesn't?
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