Cleared for takeoff: A Love Delayed

Some things don't really end. They just pause... until the next chapter finds them.

Cierra Skye Rivera never expected to fall for someone she hadn't even met in person. But back in her first year of college, one random scroll through her friend's Facebook post introduced her to Lucian Aero Kim Dela Peña - a pilot student with tired eyes, a quiet smile, and the kind of presence that felt like turbulence and comfort at the same time. They talked. Late night chats. Soft banter. The slow kind of connection that didn't rush, but felt real. And just when Skye thought maybe - just maybe - she was someone new in his story, he stopped replying.
Not cold. Just... gone. Like a plane that disappeared from the radar. No explanation. No goodbye.

What she didn't know was this:
Lucian was still haunted by his past.
Still stitched to a love he hadn't fully let go.
And she came in like a breath of fresh air, too fresh for someone still drowning.

Years passed.
Skye moved forward. Lucian stayed in place.
Until now. A wedding. Two old ghosts. One second chance neither of them saw coming.