Loved Me, Then Destroyed Me
My wife, Janice Frost, was an interworld traveler. People like her weren't supposed to form attachments with anyone in another world.
But she fell for me the moment she saw me. Every time her feelings stirred, it tore through her, like her soul was being ripped apart.
She had endured that pain 99 times.
Later, I was abducted and taken to North Kaman. They beat me every day, over and over.
Right when I was about to break, I remembered the method Janice once taught me, a way to reach her across worlds.
Somehow, I managed to use it.
But instead of her voice alone, I heard her speaking with her mentor from the other side.
"Janice, how could you contact a resistance group yourself and have them take Samuel? I thought you loved him."
Janice's voice was cold and hard.
"This ordeal was meant for Tim. I had to do this to save him. Samuel is the main protagonist of this world. He's protected by fate. Nothing will happen to him. Once this mission is done, I can stay in this timeline for good. When that happens, I'll make it up to him."
My chest tightened until it felt like it might split open.
When those people closed in on me again, I stopped resisting completely.