Left to Explode, Left Regret

Summary

My mother-in-law, Helen, was clearing new ground when her foot came down on a landmine, a ghost left over from the war.

The town foreman told me to run and get my husband, a veteran EOD specialist, to defuse it. I just shook my head, refusing.

In my last life, I ran six miles into town to save her. I dragged my husband, Liam, out of a diner where he was on a date with his "one true love." I begged him to come help.

Helen was saved, but his lover was cornered in an alley by her ex-husband and beaten to death.