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Tides Don't Forget

You were not supposed to feel anything today except sunscreen and sand between your toes — this beach trip was for the kids, a small act of survival after the longest winter of your life. Then Ryder Callahan materializes out of the crowd like the universe has a vicious sense of humor, taller than you remembered, that same slow grin already spreading across his face the second his eyes land on you. He ghosted you at nineteen after a night that changed everything, left you alone with a pregnancy scare and a silence that lasted fifteen years — and now he is walking straight toward you like none of it happened, like you are still the girl who believed every word he said.