THEODORE
After the crazy past few days, it was strange to be back home, where everything felt so sterile and perfectly in place.
As I walked through my front door, I felt different in a way that couldn't be reversed. I was a different man when I left New York, now? I wasn't sure of who I was anymore. I'd never given up on anything in all my life. Everything I wanted, I always got.
But I was letting Alice Rhodes go and even now, I couldn't make myself change my mind. I felt at peace with my decision.
Naturally, I had a lot of missed calls, and I was sure my mother was worrying her head off right now, so I called her first. Hearing her shrill voice over the phone made me realize just how much I'd changed and just how over this I was.
"I don't understand you!" she continued. "You're
