For a long time after that, I couldn't escape the nightmare.
Even though spring had already come where I was, even though I knew I was no longer trapped in that suffocating life, and even though I understood I would never be the same again, the past still found its way back to me.
At night, it always returned.
Brian's eyes would appear in my dreams, once filled with love, later twisted into something dark, almost feral.
Love, turning into obsession.
Him, me, Tracy.
The good, the bad, everything I tried to leave behind, all tangled together until nothing could be separated anymore.
And no matter how far I ran, it never truly let me go.
Until Ethan kept telling me, again and again, that the bad people had already gotten what they deserved.
Brian had been sentenced. The years were lo
