Jacques G. C.

Atoaliya Dakrua Jacques G. C.

His heart is haunted by the faded ghost of a heartless father he has tried to forget, and the tender shadow of a smile he cannot remember.
He fills his life with self-indulgent distractions; travel, adventure, career, and, most notably, beautiful women. Yet, he can not escape her. Each time her spectral image appears to him, he ends his current relationship, mercilessly breaking the hearts of innumerable women along the way. Yet the mysterious face continues to hunt him.
Many times he comes right to the brink of placing her face, exceeding even the limits of his own memories. But he never manages it. Not until his near fatal crash;
".. He feels the frozen kiss of death grasp him as his small aircraft plummets towards the ground below...
-Mayday, mayday!
...the shadow of her smile appears once more behind the bloodstained dashboard... -I am here my love, I am with you again, she whispers.
And suddenly his memory returns home. She is the only woman he ever loved. His sweetheart from his student years, who died to save his life many times, so long ago. The woman who returned from death, as she promised to bring him back to life...