Returning the Keys, Taking My Freedom

Summary

I gave up the home my fiancé and I were supposed to buy together, and the realtor stares at me in surprise.

"You've already paid the deposit. Don't you want to wait until your fiancé gets back before you make it official?"

I smile and set the keys on the desk. "No. He's busy taking his first love skiing."

Julian Harrow and I have been together for five years, and every winter, he goes to Valeria. He always calls it a business trip, but the photos he posts are of the snow-covered peak of Mount Veyra.