Orla found the solace she had yearned for all week as she sat at the pool ledge in their home, her hands were conventionally supporting her chin. 

She let her mind stray around everything that had been happening in her life lately.

Things were both good and bad. Good because she was doing exceptionally well at work, but bad because she still hadn't made up with her husband and didn't plan to do so anytime soon.

She didn't want to let go, it was hard to. The  thoughts of divorce had almost wrecked her, she was so scared she might actually go with what was on her mind, but was...