A question about Alice

What if Patrick had broken up with Alice when they were both adults? What if he had told her that he loved her but wanted to be single? What if he would hold her and tell her how much he cared about her but talk about how he wanted to sleep with other women. What if he had told her that he would always love her but could never date her again. What if he told her how attractive and gorgeous she was but that her anxiety was unattractive. What if he told her how no one else understood him like she did and how he wanted to touch her again but did not love her like he used to.

Would she find love with someone else?

Would she be happy again one day?

Or would it always be Patrick

All books begin with “what ifs,” and that’s why the thinking about the plot can sometimes take longer than the actual writing.  Once a book is written, I don’t go back and think about all the other “what ifs” I might have used.  Life is too short for that, and there are still dozens of books I hope to write about other people in other places in other times in other circumstances.