And by the time the truth reached me… it was already too late.
A Lifetime That Felt Unbreakable
I had known Troy since we were five years old.
Our childhoods were woven together—backyards without fences, shared dinners, scraped knees, and whispered secrets under summer skies that felt endless. We went to the same school, sat next to each other in class, and by the time we were teenagers, everyone assumed we would end up together.
We did.
We married at twenty, full of certainty and innocence. Back then, love felt simple. We didn’t have much money, but we had each other, and that felt like enough.