Having moved places yet again to ward off the dangers that seemed to follow us wherever we went, we tried believing that the third time would be the charm. Our new domicile was a small apartment in the same vicinity, which provided us with much-needed segregation from the outside world.
Things, however, didn’t improve as effortlessly as we’d expected upon first entering this new place. Though I had escaped the man who was the reason for this relocation, my mind hadn’t. Like a ghost, he haunted all of my thoughts, which made it obviously cumbersome for me to rejoin the company in which I worked as the senior accountant, for Tobias would then track me back again to my new dwelling.
By taking refuge in the apartment and avoiding any social interaction, I attempted to cope with the traumati
