Chapter 47

WINTER. Lena had been the love of his life. No woman had ever made him burn as much as she had. She had been his first love, his only love. They met in high school after her family had moved into their neighborhood and quickly hit it off. Right from the right moment he’d seen her walking down the school hallway, looking uncertain, he’d fallen for her. He could still remember what she’d been wearing like it was just yesterday. Ash pleated skirt and a pink cotton sweater. Her sandy blond hair had been packed up in a loose bun at the top of her hair. He'd known from that moment that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with her. It helped that her family was as rich as his and that they shared similar interests. There had never been a boring moment with Lena. So full of life with a flair for childishness, she had been a breath of fresh air in his otherwise routine existence. They’d both attended the same university with one goal in mind: get married after four years. It was at sch