The Careless Heart

Eric has finally quit smoking, and his fiancée should be delighted. Yet the change comes with small, unsettling details: citrus-scented mints, a new shower gel, a restaurant recommendation for sweet and sour dishes he has always hated. As wedding plans continue, she pieces together a thread of clues that points to another woman.

Sleepless, she searches his phone and finds nothing—until his car's GPS reveals two frequent destinations, including Westwood Medical Center, and a faint footprint on the passenger windshield. The betrayal is no longer a suspicion but a quiet, devastating certainty.

At the hospital, she watches a young doctor step from his car, trailing that same citrus scent. A decade of long distance, of promises that the line between them would only grow shorter, now hangs on a question she cannot answer.