Mia believed in love.
The kind that lasts.
The kind that chooses you—every time.
The kind that feels like forever.
But loving Ian Carter was never that simple.
For years, their connection existed in the in-between—
not quite over, never fully begun.
A cycle of promises, timing, and choices that always seemed to fall just short of forever.
Until one day… Mia finally let go.
She chose a different life.
A stable love.
A man who never made her question where she stood.
But just as everything began to fall into place—
the past found its way back.
And with it… consequences no one saw coming.
Because love doesn’t just exist between two people.
It shapes everything around it.
It leaves marks.
It creates fractures.
And sometimes…
the things built outside of that love
are the very things that come back to break it.