The saddest goodbyes are the ones you never had to say.

After years of silence, he finally gets the chance to speak to her again. In the span of a single conversation, every unspoken word and mile that separated them comes rushing back. He pushed her away, not out of malice, but from a pain he couldn’t name—the dread of goodbye, the fear of losing someone he cared for too deeply.
Now, with a chance to finally tell his truth, he’s forced to confront the lies he told and the loneliness he created for himself. But some hurts can’t be healed with words, and he may have to watch her walk away for good, a final casualty of his own fractured heart.