I'll Wait for You in the Ashes

She and he had been childhood sweethearts, but one upheaval changed everything.

When she appeared again, he was about to marry another woman.

All the devotion he had once shown her, he gave to that woman instead.

And, absurdly, in his eyes she became a loathsome homewrecker, a woman with a heart as poisonous as a snake’s or scorpion’s.