Only when the mountain flood swept everything away did she realize just how terribly wrong she had been.
The man she had neglected and ignored, the one she could not even bring herself to look at, had silently borne everything in the places she could not see.
She regretted it. She hated it. He was gone, and she no longer wanted to live either.
When she opened her eyes again, she had returned to the day he said, "When I get back to my unit, I'll file for divorce."
She looked at that familiar face, her eyes stinging, and clutched his sleeve.
This time, she said, "No. Let's make a good life together from now on."
She would learn to open the door she had kept shut her whole life, and learn to love the man who had risked his life for her.
In her past life, he kept her safe. In this one, it was her turn to walk toward him.
