Heartbreak Was Never on the Schedule

Summary

The one thing Kelly hated most in this world was turning back.

If something fell out of her bag, she abandoned it.

If she took a wrong turn, she simply committed to the mistake.

"Looking back is inefficiency," she used to say, her tone clipped and absolute. "People only move forward."

She lived by that doctrine so rigidly that even on a rain-drenched midnight after I’d clocked four hours of overtime, her black sedan glided past the glass front of my office building without touching the brakes.