AN: So I haven't uploaded in ages-sorry about that. (For more on that, please see my profile). Here is something new, let's see how it goes, shall we?

I know it's a teaser, but please comment/review if you have the time-you guys help me so much in motivation by doing so.

DFTBA

-Counting with Straws


(Prologue)

I watched my children play in the snow from my office window; my breath slowly fogging up the glass, consuming the sight of my beloved son & daughter frolicking in the gently falling flakes of the first snow of the year—on Christmas Eve, no less. Could I do this? Could I leave all of this behind? Could I leave them to their mother? Could I leave her? My vision blurred, & I could no longer see them.

Taking a deep breath, I turned to the man standing by the burning fireplace, waiting. His thin hands were hidden deep in his pockets. My heart sped up at the remembrance of those long, slender fingers ghosting across my skin the night before. He had asked me to come with him. I loved him—I had always loved him, & always would. After all these years of denying it, I knew it to be true more than anything now. But could I really my job, my home, my family behind? Could I leave this life that never really fit me & go with him? I love my children. I love my wife. I love him.

He held out his hand. "It's time to go."

Could I really runaway?