POV: ADELINE - Ghosts of the Past

POV: ADELINE

The summer before college, Brooks got his driver’s license and drove us up to Maine to visit his extended family.

My parents had never approved of our relationship. They saw Brooks as a country bumpkin—someone beneath our family’s status who was only with me for the connections my last name carried. In their eyes, my future had already been written, mapped out in the sterile boardr