This Time, I Let Her Forget Me
She forced me into the only escape route, leaving herself behind.
As her voice gradually faded into the rubble, her final words to me were, "We're even now. I owe you nothing."
I knew she had done all that just to make amends for forgetting me and falling for someone else, not because she still loved me.
Tamping down the bitterness welling up in my chest, I uttered softly, "There's no going back for Eleanor and me."
In this life, I would never repeat that mistake.
Leaving the Ashby residence, I headed to the village clinic to find Dylan.