**ISABELLA**Craving the freedom I had fought so hard for and I came this far for, I now found myself returning to every place where Maximilian and I had created memories together. I could not take that last bus. I thought I had broken all the chains, but I was wrong. The mall, the campus parking lot, the ice cream parlor, the sushi restaurant, and even the small curry rice stall where he had tried roadside food for the first time with me.I sat in the same chair as before, watching the ghost of him finish his first bowl and reach for a second. A small, bittersweet smile touched my lips. He had loved it so much. But then the image slowly faded, just like all the others.I blinked down at the untouched curry rice in front of me. I couldn’t bring myself to eat it, let alone touch it. It carried the heavy weight of loss, not just of my heart, but of my soul. That was when my eyes fell on an elderly woman on the side of the street. Her limbs trembled, her back bent with age, and her cloth
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