Love beyond the distance

PROLOGUE: I once gave my heart to the person I loved the most. For years, I believed we were happy. I believed we were content. I believed the promises we made were enough to keep us together, even when life started pulling us in different directions. But I was wrong. While I was holding on to him, he was already finding happiness with someone else. Spending almost three years with someone is not easy to forget. It is not something you can simply erase from your mind, especially when that person was not only your boyfriend, but also your best friend. I gave him everything I had. My trust. My time. My patience. My love. In the end, all I received was pain. That heartbreak changed me. It broke something inside me that I thought would never heal. I became afraid of trusting again. Ibecame afraid of loving again. I promised myself that no one would ever have the power to hurt me the same way. I built walls around my heart and made them as strong as stone. Then he came... Dr. Thaddeus Knight Alastair Scott. No matter how many times I pushed him away, he stayed. No matter how cold I tried to be, he remained warm. No matter how many times I rejected him, he never made me feel like I was hard to love. Slowly, he melted the heart I thought had turned into stone. He came into my life like sunlight after a long, lonely winter. And before I even realized it, I had broken the promise I made to myself. I loved him, and he loved me too. Our love was not easy. People judged us because of our age gap. Some said it was wrong. Some said it would never work, but we were ready to prove them wrong. We were ready to fight for each other, to keep our promises, and to build the life we had always dreamed of. Everything was already planned. But I forgot one painful truth. Fate does not always follow the plans we make. Just when I thought I had finally found my perfect ending, life turned it into a tragedy. My name is Celestine Adelaine “Adie” Montefalco. And this is the story of how I met my unexpected love, and how that love ended in the most unexpected way.