The Next Of Us

Happily Ever After isn’t supposed to come with an expiration date.

Nadine
Barely a couple before becoming a family, Aaron and I built a beautiful life together.
Before I can blink, our children are grown and gone, Aaron’s rarely home, and I wander around our big, empty house like a lost soul.
I don’t know who I am anymore.
Or where we go from here.
And I can’t shake the niggling doubt that if we hadn’t gotten pregnant, Aaron wouldn’t have chosen me.

Aaron
When the pregnancy test came back positive, I vowed not to let it steal Nadine’s dreams. We chased this life down and wrangled it into submission.
But now our beautiful life feels more like a prison than a prize.
And I’m afraid the woman I’ve loved since I was a teenager will no longer want what I have to offer.

If she had to choose again, would she still choose us?
Would I?