The Next Of Us

<p><strong>Happily Ever After isn't supposed to come with an expiration date.</strong></p><p><em>Nadine</em><br>Barely a couple before becoming a family Aaron and I built a beautiful life together.<br>Before I can blink our children are grown and gone Aaron's rarely home and I wander around our big empty house like a lost soul.<br>I don't know who I am anymore.<br>Or where we go from here.<br>And I can't shake the niggling doubt that if we hadn't gotten pregnant Aaron wouldn't have chosen me.<br><br><em>Aaron</em><br>When the pregnancy test came back positive I vowed not to let it steal Nadine's dreams. We chased this life down and wrangled it into submission.<br>But now our beautiful life feels more like a prison than a prize.<br>And I'm afraid the woman I've loved since I was a teenager will no longer want what I have to offer.<br><br><em><strong>If she had to choose again would she still choose us?</strong></em><br><em><strong>Would I?</strong></em></p>