Chapter 45

My head throbbed. It wasn’t even half the truth, but it made me feel like I was going to explode. I didn’t know what or how to react. Damon’s past experiences were beyond my understanding of what it felt like. I couldn’t possibly understand without experiencing them myself. I could imagine how I might feel, but I couldn’t actually know. I almost entirely knew and understood what I’d experienced firsthand. That must be very traumatizing for him. And the idea of his sufferings made my heart break into a million pieces.

I had those life moments that I barely remember. But I’d never been in a situation that stayed in my mind that no matter how I tried to forget it, it’s still there somewhere and that didn’t leave. But Damon . . . he’d been inside of that. Moments made up a person’s life. We didn’t remember much of our lives. Even if it’s somewhere on our mental hard drives, retrieving most memories was out of the question. What we did remember, on the other hand, were the events that had