The Woman Who Loved a Heart

h. Five PM. Her shift at Chic

tant. Her fifth w

nner at home. Ethan, her

uched her. Ethan had been di

rgency, a late meeting. He pro

down. Tonight would b

walked to her car. A mes

I just saw at The Aviary.

xt includ

ld college girlfriend. Chloe, looking s

expensive rooftop bar.

dropped. Her hand

s called "the one that got away" wh

topilot, the image b

lt cold, empty.

gna, her movements mechanic

he ignored it. Probably A

wa

he heard Ethan'

xpensive perfume, not Chloe's usual

ually. "Sorry I'm late.

her. He went strai

d. She followed him,

is back to her. His vo

uttering in the kitchen." A pause. "Sarah? Sh

h fr

" Ethan continued, a smirk in his voice. "Besi

s h

ped further, "she always smells like

f her profession, the smell of saving lives. The smell that had

shed back. F

onstruction sites. Faulty scaffolding. His c

his broken body and bleak prognosis and van

r Michael, a Chicago firefighter, her childhood sweetheart, her

as an org

erfect match f

, was numb with grief. When she found out Ethan received

ring for Ethan. If she could save this man, keep Michael's

ation. He mistook her fierce protection of

angel, his lifes

e would protect Michael's heart, cherish

usly and given to Sarah, became her most sacred possession. It was a

all. He turned, f

just standing there?

antiseptic.

had dedicated five years of her life to him, to

was probab