Northern Lights

<p>My life was nearly perfect.</p><p>21. Grad student. Loving and supportive family. Best friends a girl could ask for. Protégé to the most sought after professor in my field. Perfect I tell you.</p><p>Then in just one week <em>everything</em> changed.</p><p>Now...</p><p>30. Single parent. Living in a new city hours away from home. Best friend in tow. Rejoining academia after ghosting my dreams nearly a decade prior.</p><p><br></p><p><em>Nothing to see here folks. Don't mind me.</em></p><p>But then <em>he</em> sees me. And he <em>wants</em> me. There's no way I'm traveling <em>that</em> road again. But did I really even travel it the first time?</p>