Chapter 5

The screen went dark. Minutes dragged by.

Finally, a single text bubbled up.

[...I'm sorry.]

My whole body trembled.

Sorry?

When they smeared me as a homewrecker in my past life, did he say sorry?

When I miscarried and fell in a pool of blood, did he say sorry?

When I plummeted from the balcony, did he say sorry?

My father's life, my ten years of youth in the past life, and that unborn child—they couldn't be erased by a single "sorry."

[Cole, if my dad hadn't traded his life to bring you back, I would want to kill you…