An Empty Quiet Place

Love was right before Sarah Vandergriff's eyes all the while, but she refused to see it.  Bryan Wimberly had loved her from the time of their early teen years.  She liked him in return, but not in the way he wanted her to like him,  He was her best chum.  Even her confidant.  He was the one she enjoyed being with.  Why couldn't he just be content to be that close friend to her?  Why did he have to want so much more?

There was nothing amiss about Bryan, in her judgement.  He simply was not what she thought she desired in a man.  That ideal man would be a very masculine and sophisticated man,  He would be a man of the world.  Rugged, mysterious, and the image of the knight in shining armour who would come to her, capture her hand and heart and carry her away to his mysterious and romantic castle far away.

Then she met a man like that.  Two such men, actually.  But they both turned out to be not what her dreams had always told her a man like that would be like.  In life, not dreams and fairy tales,

Then everything changed for Sarah.  In a moment's time, her world changed, and nothing would ever be the same again.  The accident left her without the use of her legs.  She would never walk again.  And, to make it worse, if it could possibly be worse, the man of her dreams, the one she had dreamed of since her youth, and the one who had promised to make her his wife, abandoned her.  Now she knew.  No man would want her.  Of that she was convinced.

But Bryan wanted her.  He had neve wavered in his love for her.  What would it take to get her to see what was there all along?

No part of this novel was written by AI.  Nor was any part of it created, or modified with the assistance of AI.  Nor was AI or any AI tool used in the editing process.