Another excerpt from my upcoming novel "Five"

"I stopped counting how many times I'd caught myself standing in this place years ago. Aimlessly staring into the mirror wondering exactly what I saw when I looked at him. His eyes held misery as if they were born to show pain. His demeanor was as cold as new heartache lost in a December sky. Everything about his spirit bemoaned a person that someone who yearned to be loved should fear. And despite seeing the clarity of a future restless craze, I came back anyway. I could ignore his reality until the end of days but the possibility...the possibility of the man he could be...the possibility of us together was crippling. I knew then that he would have to be the one to leave me. In my mind the lines that separate love and lust had been blurred. And I would stake my life on the principle that our lives together would never be deterred. Never."- Five