AMBER'S POV I giggled to myself and shook my head. My last day in Tokyo and I was just stepping out onto the balcony of the penthouse suite. I closed my eyes and allowed the wind to grace my face. I had a few more hours of this fake world. A few more hours of the place in this world I loved most before I returned to my closet-sized apartment in Tondo, Manila. I didn't want to return. I didn't want to go back to that place. I wanted to check my mother out of that facility, bring her to Tokyo, and live out my days as Heather Buena Ford, the girl I'd left behind when I changed my name. "Amber no-last-name" didn't have a life. She didn't have a world she belonged in. She didn't have things she could be proud of. But Heather did. The sadness was overwhelming. I felt my chest constrict and

