CE,

YEARS

you here" my mother droned on me, just after I was done with my performance at a

ther did I plan on attending but I knew my mother's guil

ere, Vivianna is getting married and the best part, she's marrying for love

down the street still mostly dressed in my ballet attire but I h

in my fa

u can't run away from home forever, I thought you'll be done wi

mama

en't been with a man since Dante divorced, I had lived since then pouring my all into ballet and scared to give out my heart to

I said and she gav

al sophisticated good men, you'll like him I promis

care about that mama, and besi

aybe by Vivianna's whining that she didn't like her wedding dress, but her voic

push further "Fine mama, I'll be there – but I'm not staying and I'll leave imm

er breathy voice "Fine

*

ove was my ex husband's cousin whom I have not seen or spoken to in five years since I signed those divorce papers, and then took the next plane to France. We were both in V

he sounded, applying red lipstick to her lips that matched her dress a

reen Cove is into

to his ex the moment she came back into town whom by the way brok

iece of information she had unnecessarily revealed out to me. She

e thinking of

ams to be with a man whom she thought would love her. I was a professional ballet dancer now and had he

zed through the door dressed in a flowing sparkling d

with a groan and walking out the room leaving me with the so

ight just be someone ou

om

behind papa talking to a bald headed man dressed in a suit. I walked past a couple of people who looked a little eager to be here, from where I stood I could spot Vivianna giggling carelessly into Paulo's ear and I could say they looked a little in love. I didn't bother to gawk, I walked out the door, letting the cool air hit my face as I walked across the lawn towards the pool with the bottle of wine in my hands. I

of danger flanking the aura that suddenly engulfed me. The hairs at the

as before I eve

nt

and run back into the party that I had been avoiding. But in my haste, my heel caught on the hem of my dress, and I stumbled. Before I could even regi

fell away-the party, the pool, the world. It was just him, and me,

breathed, his vo