Epilogue (Melissa)

Mark saved my life. I don't mean I was going to end my own life, but I dread to think of where my life would have ended up had he not walked into my office that day so long ago. The fact I'd fallen in love with him so quickly did surprise me as I'd cut myself off from any such feelings for so long, thinking I was protecting myself, but all I was doing was denying me the opportunity of finding someone who could love someone like me, completely broken after what had happened to me.

In the years since that fateful day, I'd made plenty of...