Rowan and Isobel shared a similar fate, yet their experiences of it differed greatly. Rowan had no recollection of his past life—his mind a blank slate, untouched by memories of who he once was. Isobel, on the other hand, carried fragments of the past, but only those that revolved around Rowan. She remembered him as if he were the center of her universe, yet everything else remained lost in the void. The cruel irony was that, despite these remnants, she did not recognize Shanna—the woman who had suffered the most because of their past.
Her face was unchanged from the life before, yet her eyes failed to see beyond what her memories allowed.
There was an old human saying: You can measure a woman’s love for a man when he has nothing, and a man’s love for a woman when he has everything. It w
