Of all the words Fable hated in the English language, it was ‘should’ve.’ It was a precursor to regret, she’d found.

‘I should’ve made it on time.’

‘I should’ve done something else.’

‘I should’ve said something.’

There were so many should’ves that buried themselves in people's hearts, and they pretend that it doesn’t matter, that they leave the past in the past, but they don’t. Those should’ve piled up and ...