Then, Now, Always by Mona Shroff

Author:Mona Shroff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2019-11-12T20:10:34+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

MAYA

New York, 2012

MAYA STOOD MOTIONLESS in her apartment and listened to Sam’s thundering footsteps as he stormed off. When the bottom door slammed, she brought her attention to the object in her hand. She knew what it was the instant he put it there. She just didn’t know why. She held it up to the light. The coin was old, tinged slightly green. She turned it this way and that.

Heads, we get married, tails, we break up. Heads, we see your movie, tails, we see mine. The words echoed in her ear, deafening her when the secret of the coin was revealed to her. The whole world stopped, leaving Maya in a vacuum, the only sound her rapidly pounding heart, which quickly filled with remorse. It couldn’t be.

She squeezed the coin in her hand, tighter and tighter until the coin pressed uncomfortably into her hand, and her nails dug into her skin. She opened her hand to verify the truth. She stared down at the coin and flipped it over, her head, her limbs, joining her heart, heavy with regret and opportunities lost.

On one side, the profile of a man who must’ve been of some importance to be immortalized on a coin. A head. On the flip side, the other profile of the same man. Another head. Heads, we do what you want, tails, we do what I want. Always.

Tears threatened again as a heavy sob built from her depths. What had she done? She quelled the sob before it broke, dragging her into a well of lament and despair. Tears would have to wait. She had a meeting with a bride in fifteen minutes. Maya tore her gaze away from the coin and fortified herself before heading into the bathroom. She needed this wedding contract. What was done was done.

She couldn’t change the past. Even if she wanted to.

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