Buried Hatchets

Another story idea, stemming from this story, earlier: a young professional couple living in Manhattan. He cheated on her a year ago, and she's still sublimating it. It hasn't been fully dealt with in thier relationship. After tantrums, screaming, and a cold-but-brief separation, she's thrown herself fullscale into her work at a boutique M&A firm. He's been walking on eggshells ever since. Don't know what happens next, yet... sorry.

Hmmmm. Maybe he reads the story of Henry's Mountain of Gold in one of the books he's reading. Maybe she is being considered for a promotion conditional on her willingness to engage in a little quid pro quo (nothing so shocking yet as actual sex, oh no ! but perhaps a little after-work emotional availability) one of the managing directors.

And maybe as he considers that, yes, he screwed up, but's he's been doing all he can to make it right, dammit, and she's just not reaching out to grab that ever-extended hand... maybe he sees that she's not the one for him.