After being reborn, I make up my mind to stop chasing after my husband and daughter

Ryan actually seemed pretty hungry. Once he’d polished off a bowl of rice, he popped his meds.

I glanced around the place–it was so peaceful, not a hint of noise anywhere.

“Don’t you have class or something?” I asked him.

“Yeah, I’m going back to school tomorrow,” Ryan replied. “What, you think I came to Shaville because I flunked out?”

I chuckled. “With your family, it doesn’t really matter where you go to school. Staying safe is what matters.”

Ryan laughed too. “I’m actually a pretty good student. I just came to Shaville for my own reasons.”

I nodded, taking his word for it.

“Sorry for making you come all this way. Do you think I’m being silly?” Ryan shot me a quick, almost shy glance as he asked.

“Not at all. Just get better soon,” I reassured him.

Ryan slouched onto the couch; eyes half–closed. “Relax, I’m not dying or anything. But honestly, I’m about to get depressed if I keep staying in. I just want to go out and do something fun.”

“Where do you want to go?” I asked with a smile.

to go on an adventure, head out to the middle of nowhere, climb a snowy mountain, go scuba diving…” Ryan’s eyes lost their spark.

thought,

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starting to feel like a total freak,” Ryan said, sadness in his eyes as he looked at me. “At first, they wouldn’t even let me go to Hachester to see you. They even control my every move. But you… you’re

at him, totally

at me. “You probably never imagined I have to negotiate just

come and go as he

me, almost dazed. “Victoria, if I said I wanted you, they’d have you delivered to me before

my whole reality

who worship it like a religion,” Ryan said with a bitter laugh. Then he added, “I’d never let them lay a finger on

my back, and I found myself gripping my

guilt written all over his face. “You said you didn’t

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know more about me.”

I said, half joking. “Honestly, who really gets to do whatever they