Love Forever After
Therese A Kraemer
- In
- the
- year
- 1896,
- Brett
- Hope
- Bouvier,
- a
- young,
- distraught
- woman,
- in
- total
- confusion
- from
- medication,
- commits
- suicide
- because
- she
- thinks
- her
- husband,
- Jacques,
- is
- having
- an
- affair.
- Jacques
- hides
- the
- truth
- of
- her
- suicide
- and
- is
- convicted
- of
- her
- murder
- and
- hanged.
- In
- 2013,
- Elaine
- Dale
- Bouvier
- receives
- a
- phone
- call
- from
- a
- lawyer
- informing
- her
- that
- her
- spinster
- aunt
- died
- leaving
- her
- the
- sole
- beneficiary
- of
- her
- estate.
Lawyer
- Robert
- Michael,
- executing
- the
- will
- becomes
- immediately
- attracted
- to
- Elaine
- and
- Elaine
- find
- an
- instant
- attraction
- to
- him
- also.
- She
- has
- her
- first
- bout
- of
- deja-vu,
- feeling
- as
- if
- she
- has
- meet
- Robert
- before.
- Completely
- confused
- by
- her
- overpowering
- magnetism,
- he
- offers
- to
- drive
- Elaine
- to
- Virginia.
- They
- marry
- before
- they
- go
- south
- to
- live
- in
- Elaine’s
- new
- estate,
- .
- A
- few
- months
- later
- they
- have
- a
- real
- wedding
- and
- Robert
- presents
- her
- with
- an
- antique
- ring
- with
- the
- inscription,
- Love
- Forever
- After.
And
- then
- their
- happiness
- turns
- to
- a
- horror
- story.
- Elaine
- begins
- to
- have
- more
- episodes
- of
- deja-veu,
- sees
- ghosts,
- and
- becomes
- claustrophobic.
- When
- her
- friend
- Zoë
- visits,
- Elaine
- believes
- that
- Robert
- is
- being
- unfaithful
- with
- her.
- Fearing
- the
- worst,
- she
- flees
- down
- the
- stairs,
- but
- trips
- and
- falls.
- She
- wakes
- up
- in
- 1896
- in
- a
- dark
- and
- dingy
- cell.
- As
- the
- mental
- fog
- begins
- to
- ebb,
- and
- as
- new
- thoughts
- become
- clear,
- old
- memories
- begins
- to
- vanish.
- She’s
- no
- longer
- Elaine,
- but
- Jacques
- Bouvier.
- Resting
- his
- tired
- body
- against
- the
- cold,
- damp,
- brick
- wall,
- Jacques
- thinks
- back
- and
- relives,
- in
- his
- mind,
- the
- day
- he
- first
- met
- Brett
- Hope
- Sullivan.
Regaining
- consciousness,
- Elaine
- awakens
- from
- a
- terrible
- nightmare.
- She
- tells
- Robert
- of
- her
- strange
- dream;
- how
- she’d
- lived
- the
- life
- as
- Jacques.
- She
- also
- explains
- to
- her
- husband,
- that
- he
- lived
- the
- life
- of
- Brett.
- She
- discovered
- the
- truth
- that
- Jacques
- was
- no
- more
- unfaithful
- to
- his
- wife
- than
- Robert
- was
- to
- her.
- Elaine
- realizes
- she
- almost
- made
- the
- same
- horrible
- mistake
- Brett
- made
- and
- that
- her
- own
- life
- had
- repeated
- those
- same
- patterns
- of mistrust.
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