Chapter 6

In the original story, Laura's health had always been terrible: joint pain from kneeling in the rain, complications from donating a kidney, and hormone issues brought on by long-term depression.

But that had all been part of the original plot. Now she had stepped outside that story. Could those physical problems really follow her into the present too?

She shook her head and forced the thought away.

Whatever came, she'd deal with it. At worst, she'd get treatment. That still beat being tortured to death in the original plot.

That evening, Laura unpacked in her new home and opened the…