NATALIA
I followed Xavier’s instructions and left the city and everything else behind even before the sun went up. I haven’t had a blink of sleep, but it wasn’t fear that kept me up, but the pain of betrayal. I already expected Tristan’s anger, especially because he thought I’d hurt Lorelei too… But I didn’t expect him to go beyond what he told me about my father.
I thought once he had cleared up his mind, he would try to reach out and hear my side. I thought he was different from how he was in my first life, but it all boiled down to the same outcome.
My eyes landed on the sky. The moon is still a little bit visible, but the sun is already about to rise.
“I don’t understand why you’re doing this,” I mumbled to myself, still looking at the faint image of the moon. “What did I do so wro
