2. The Cruelest Month
She couldn't say for sure which had been the most painful period of her acquaintance with him. They all cut so deeply. Was it the brash and horrendously good looking noble youth their father's friend introduced? The immediate attraction between him and Yuris? Their shared love for flying? The perfect pair of pilot and navigator? The slight jealousy as she watched he and her sister draw closer? The announcement of their engagement? The death and his subsequent fall into depression? His surrender to its seductive embrace? His continued rejections of her?
Or when she realized he would never be hers?