Setting the scene…
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Saltwater Year
After a sudden firing, a city executive moves to a coastal town for one year. The town has plans of its own.
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Previously
…Her casual dismissal, the way she framed his age not as experience or wisdom, but as an insurmountable barrier, a mark of antiquity, felt like a physical blow. The future he’d so carefully constructed in his mind, the one where Fridah was the cornerstone of his new life, crumbled into dust. He’d seen her as his destiny helper, the one who would anchor him in this unexpected harbor. Now, she was the one pushing him back out to sea, alone. The betrayal, sharp and unexpected, settled in his gut, a cold, heavy stone. He’d offered her his heart, his future, and she’d tossed it back, not with malice, but with a dismissive laugh that echoed the hollowness he suddenly felt.