In Another Life

By E E Montgomery

A moving short story about finding yourself, fixing past mistakes, and forevers...

When Eli was twenty-four, he thought he had it all: the job of his dreams, the man of his dreams, and a future that would last forever. But Mike had different plans, and he left Eli to follow them, breaking Eli's heart.

Eight years later, Eli and Mike cross paths, but a personal tragedy in Eli's life ensures any chance they had to reconnect slips away.

Eight years pass again, and Mike is back. Eli had finally started to hope that he could find happiness without Mike, but now he must make a decision: play it safe and risk living the rest of his life pining for the one man who made him feel whole, or risk everything on the hope that the third time is the charm.

• Language: English
• Publisher: E E Montgomery
• Release date: Oct 23, 2019
• ISBN: 9780987631619

E E Montgomery

For E E Montgomery, writing is the thread that stitches the fragments of a curious mind into myriad imaginary worlds.  A dedicated people-watcher, E E finds stories everywhere. In a cafe, a cemetery, a book on space exploration or on the news: there’ll be a story of personal growth, love, and unconditional acceptance there somewhere. E E Montgomery has published short stories, novellas and novels across genres (contemporary, historical, romance, science fiction and fantasy) since 2011. You can contact E E Montgomery at [e-mail]; on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ewynelaine.montgomery; on Twitter: @EEMontgomery1; on Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EEMontgomery; or at her web site: http://www.eemontgomery.com/ and blog: http://www.eemontgomery.com/blog.

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About In Another Life

Amoving short story about finding yourself, fixing past mistakes, and forevers...

When Eli was twenty-four, he thought he had it all: the job of his dreams, the man of his dreams, and a future that would last forever. But Mike had different plans, and he left Eli to follow them, breaking Eli's heart.

Eight years later, Eli and Mike cross paths, but a personal tragedy in Eli's life ensures any chance they had to reconnect slips away.

Eight years pass again, and Mike is back. Eli had finally started to hope that he could find happiness without Mike, but now he must make a decision: play it safe and risk living the rest of his life pining for the one man who made him feel whole, or risk everything on the hope that the third time is the charm.

In Another Life

I can’t do this anymore . I’m sorry.

I stopped stirring the white sauce and watched the bubbles rise and burst. After a long, silent moment, I let go of the wooden spoon and reached over to turn off the gas under the pan. It was too late. I could already smell scorched milk. Slowly, because suddenly my balance was gone, I turned to look at Mike. He looked the same as ever—dark curls like little horns on his forehead, violet-blue eyes rimmed with long black lashes, clear fresh-cream skin. For one stolen moment I told myself it was something simple like finishing the small rock garden we started planning last Christmas.

His smile was gone.

I opened my mouth to ask... I wasn’t sure what. Probably something inane like ‘What can’t you do?’ I looked behind him and noticed two suitcases standing like toast soldiers against the wall next to the door.

I have that conference in New York.

I brought my gaze back to him but the sentence still didn’t make sense with what was going through my head. I blinked, knew it was too slow, knew I was too slow, too tired, too overworked, too... everything, to understand what was going on. Yet I knew what he was going to say next.

You forgot that too, didn’t you? Mike said, a mix of hurt and cynicism