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I analyze risk for a living. What I did in Rome was the most irrational decision of my life.
I was days away from signing a partnership agreement that included a $350,000 salary, profit sharing, and my name on the door. Instead, I stood barefoot on the narrow balcony of a tiny apartment in Trastevere, tear-streaked, trying to recognize the woman who had just turned it all down for one more month with a man she barely knew.
What I'm about to tell you is the absolute truth, as impossible as it may seem.
The question everyone asks me is: "Do you regret it?"
They mean Matteo. The whirlwind. The five weeks in Rome that transformed my entire life.
The answer is complicated.
Do I regret that afternoon at the Trevi, laughing with my friends and daring to wish for him? Do I regret the first night we walked through cobblestone streets, when the world seemed to shrink around us and every rational thought disappeared? Do I regret the nights I let myself love him completely, knowing it could never last?
No.
Do I regret what it cost me?
That's where it gets messy.
I'm a planner. He lived moment to moment.
I needed certainty. He embraced impermanence.
I wanted to build something that would last. He wanted to feel something right now.
We were impossible from the start.
But impossible loves have a way of teaching you things that possible ones never could.
What I learned in the aftermath nearly broke me.
But broken things, when they heal, are never quite the same shape.
Sometimes they're stronger. Sometimes they're softer. Sometimes they're finally ready for the hands that won't let go.
I needed to be cracked open first.
So I could be ready for the real love.
Perfect for readers of Josie Silver and Taylor Jenkins Reid who love stories where heartbreak becomes transformation.
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