When the Ashes Loved Me Back

Three days before we were supposed to get our marriage license, a massive fire broke out in the building where Ethan Gray's startup was located.

Ethan and I were trapped in the office on the sixty-eighth floor.

While escaping, a load-bearing steel beam overhead came crashing down. I pushed him out of the way and got pinned beneath the debris.

A piece of broken rebar pierced straight through my right shoulder blade, less than an inch from my heart.

Blood gushed out instantly, staining my white shirt crimson.