The Water Under the Bridge
Language: en
My boyfriend tried to drag me into a suicide pact with him. Not only did I refuse to die, but I held his head underwater and drowned him myself. Forty years ago, our love was forbidden by social norms, so he asked me to jump into the river with him to end it all. Julian died, but I was rescued. Filled with guilt and pain, I lived a miserable, lonely life, working myself to the bone to support Julian's parents and younger brother. But forty years later, as I lay dying in a hospital bed, broken and sick... Julian, who was supposed to be dead, suddenly appeared before me, alive and well,…