LUCIAN's POV
"Sitting here face-to-face with you feels so strange after all these years," she said, her voice filled with waves of sadness.
I tried to muster a smile. My mind was exhausted from trying to piece together lost fragments, and the estrangement from my past life was starting to wear on my soul. I felt like a stranger to myself. It was as if I was living two lives—one as the old Lucian and one as the new. If I was honest with myself, I wasn’t either of them anymore. I couldn’t continue living with labels forcibly attached to me from the past, nor could I chase after my long-lost dreams. It was too late for both.
I was just lost. Tired and lost...
The setting sun cast its last rays over Valerie's garden. Her family had gone out of town for the weekend, so she had said we could
