The Girl Like Her

Ariana Blake and Nathan Ross had been together since they were young—eleven years of love, seven of them as husband and wife. But when Ariana noticed a young woman around Nathan who looked strikingly like her 18-year-old self, and sensed that his heart was no longer steady, she gave him three chances to prove he was still the man she married. She used up all three chances. By the end, she saw clearly that he had already changed. So she chose to leave before he crossed that final line—to preserve the memory of what they once had. When Nathan saw the divorce papers, he panicked. He knew how rare their bond was. But every attempt he made to hold on only pushed her further away. In the end, all that was left for him was regret.