[Love Letters 01] • Jilted

Can love ever measure up to perfection?

Jon Seifer is almost everything to me. He’s the security that anchors me and the love that raises me up.

However, I was, at birth, promised in marriage to an even more amazing man who holds a medical degree from Harvard Medical School, works as a cardiac surgeon at Mayo Clinic, and hails from the lofty Brahmin caste.

Like me.

And he is a good man. A man I could love given half a chance. Everyone agrees he’s perfect for me. And everyone knows that I—an overachiever from birth—would never settle for anything less than perfection.

So where does it leave Jon…?