Like We Never Loved At All

After three years together, Prem and Boun ended their relationship in six sentences neither of them meant.

Eight months later, they have mastered the performance of moving on: polite greetings, separate chairs, carefully divided friends and smiles convincing enough to fool everyone but each other. But beneath all that practiced distance are two men still carrying the same unanswered question-what if their breakup was never mutual at all?

Inspired by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "The Tracks of My Tears," Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's "Like We Never Loved at All," and the Commodores' "Easy," this is a story about love disguised as restraint, silence mistaken for kindness, and two people learning that the opposite of letting go may not be holding on.

It may be asking.