Second True Love

“Can you have a one true love twice in one lifetime?”

She’s completely forbidden.
My best friend’s little sister, fifteen years younger, and a short term tenant in my home.

I am a man living in perpetual darkness, grieving the only love I've ever known.
But Clementine Hawthorne starts to chip away the decade long ice around my heart.
And the more I resist, the more her sweet smiles and heartwarming concern for my daughter bring her closer.

I try to reason with myself--and with her--that this isn’t right.

But there’s a larger force working its magic to bring me to my second true love.