Chapter 20 - The Unwritten HorizonI slid behind the steering wheel of my car, turning the ignition and listening to the smooth, powerful purr of the engine.
As I pulled out of the hospital parking garage and merged into the evening traffic, I glanced in the rearview mirror. The city lights stretched out infinitely before me, bright, clear, and unobstructed by the ghosts of the past.
The pale blue dress I had worn that fateful Friday afternoon had long since been donated to a women’s shelter charity drive—a symbolic shedding of an old skin. Today, I wore a tailored black coat, moving forward with a future that belonged entirely to me.
Some women spend their lives waiting for a man to choose them.
I had spent eight hours waiting for a man who didn't have the courage to show up—and in doing so, I discovered that I never needed him to choose me at all, because I had already chosen myself.
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I pressed my foot down gently on the accelerator, driving forward into the bright, unwritten horizon.
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