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

I felt like a plastic bag just drifting wherever the wind took me, powerless to steer my own life.

Ever since I met Ryan, everything has been out of my hands.

“Ryan, I’ve been on and off with Nathan so many times. I feel like such a heartbreaker, totally irresponsible. Are you sure you want someone like me?” I didn’t want to trash myself, but that’s just how it is–my feelings are all over the place, and I can’t seem to control them.

Ryan looked at me, eyes wild and intense. “Good and bad aren’t for the world to decide. I make up my own mind about you”

“I’m worried you’ll regret this someday, thinking I’m not faithful when it comes to relationships,” I said, half–joking, half-

serious.

“You’ve got money and looks. What is there for you to be afraid of losing?” Ryan shot back, and it hit me hard.

I stared at him, stunned. He curled his lips into a wicked smirk. “I stopped believing in ‘forever ages ago. Relationships only exist when there’s mutual attraction. You really are a heartbreaker–always making promises and never keeping them.”

I was stunned. Not long ago, I thought Ryan was just this sweet, naive guy.

Turns out, that innocence was just an act–he actually gets how the world works.

there are always things I can’t control,” I stammered, trying to make excuses, but the words

it. “Yeah, nobody really gets to do whatever

weight on your shoulders?” I asked, feeling both worried

his gaze, his expression shadowed with melancholy. “Everyone thinks I was dealt a winning hand, but nobody sees the thorns and fangs hiding behind it–a

I was seven, I got kidnapped and stuffed into a cramped steel drum. I listened to them drinking and feasting, chatting about how

of my own life, I’d just end up stuck in another steel drum, curled up while the people profiting off me sat in the back, drinking wine and

was stunned, staring at Ryan’s fair and strikingly handsome face, unable to imagine the kind of

in silence, then reached

felt like he

husky. “Victoria, you say your life isn’t perfect anymore because of the divorce. If that’s true, then my soul is missing a piece too. I’m just as

tall body trembling ever so slightly, as if a part of his soul had

I never really tried to understand you, and I always judged your opinions because of where you came from.

alright. I’m used to it. Right now, all

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