Rising From Your Burnt Ashes

Summary

I gave Isabel a hundred-day grace period before we walked down the aisle.

A simple test: if she could go those hundred days without contacting Adrian, her first love, I would forgive her.

For ninety-nine days, she was practically perfect.

Then came the early hours of the hundredth day. Adrian posted a photo on Instagram:

"Afraid I’d have nightmares, she burned someone else’s sacred protection charm just to keep me warm."

In the photo, the half-charred red silk pouch was unmistakable. It was the amulet my grandmother had climbed a mountain shrine on her hands and knees to get for me right…