I think I’m losing my mind at this point. Every time my wife has turned her sad eyes in my direction and asked for us to talk, I’ve conveniently had a business meeting, a deal to close, a property to see.įor two years, over seven hundred days, I’ve spent more time away from my wife than with her for the sole purpose of saving my marriage. I’ve been stalling successfully for the last two years of our four-year marriage. Besides, it’s Christmas Eve and we should be together. This is Charlee’s hometown, and I convinced her to take this trip with me to hash out the details of our divorce. “This is a…” My gaze runs from the smoked stained exposed beams in the ceiling to the dirty oak floors that appear as if they haven’t been cleaned since the cabin was built twenty years ago, and I try to conjure up something complimentary about this ramshackle contraption called a home that realtor in town said was the only place available for the low price of eighty grand. His wife is about to find out how truly obsessed he is with her. He knows he can never let her go and all the control he’s barely held onto snaps. Rowan knows he’s in for a fight but he’s not signing those divorce papers and he’s not letting Charlee get away, even if it means kidnapping her to a small cabin in her home town in the dead of winter. The ink is barely dry on their marriage certificate when her hard pursuing husband suddenly becomes cold and distant, off on business more than he’s at home. Her happily ever after doesn’t last long though.

She said yes when he asked her to marry him-even though it was only two weeks after they met. It took one look for Charlee to fall for Rowan.

Shocked by his own lack of self restraint and the dark thoughts of possession and ownership that filled him, Rowan fears his precious wife will leave him if she finds out how he really feels, how crazy in love with her he really is. He wifed her immediately-as in two weeks after their first meeting. It took one look for Rowan to fall for Charlee.

Our Snowy Night by Ella Goode