Love, Realigned

g physics career to build her art gallery into a success, endured her family's disdain, and

l dishes growing cold, waiting for a wife who never came home on time. My phone buzzed with an explosive headl

hildhood sweetheart. She glowed as she declared him "the one I have been waiting for my entire life." The article

me so utterly, so callously? The contrast, her forty-million-dollar gift to her "soulmate" ver

e candle on my pathetic birthday cake, a ghost of a celebration. "Happy birthday, Ethan," I whisper