I locked my door, got in touch with a new moving company, and hightailed it straight to a whole different city.
To make sure they could never track me down again, I didn’t buy a plane ticket with my ID. Instead, I hopped on a long-distance bus for the grueling long-haul ride.
As the bus rumbled down the highway, my mind drifted back to when I was eighteen.
Back then, I’d been in this exact same spot... sitting on a bus, hurtling toward a future I knew nothing about. I had no clue if the road ahead would lead to something good or something terrible, no idea what life had in store for me. All I could do was let fate sweep me along wherever it wanted to go.
But back then, all I’d walked into was a living nightmare. The boy I’d grown up with, my childhood sweetheart, had changed beyond rec
