Chapter 423LUMINA"Why?" Rivers asked suspiciously. "What did this Janice want in return?""A promise," I said. "When I died, when she offered to send me back, I promised that if I got another chance, I would leave Xenois. Would take Ollie and remove us from his life so we wouldn't have to suffer through his neglect again.""But you didn't leave," Silvia observed."No," I agreed. "Because when I came back—when I woke up in my past self one year before everything fell apart—I started investigating. Started paying attention to things I'd dismissed before. And I realized, well it took leaving here with Ollie to seek refuge in Zade's pack that Xenois wasn't choosing to neglect us. He was being magically controlled by Sophia."I looked at Xenois, seeing the same guilt and pain I'd been carrying reflected in his eyes."Once I understood that," I continued, "I couldn't leave him alone,. Couldn't abandon him to that manipulation or let Sophia win, . So I stayed and fought for it.. Exposed h
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