Chapter 5

Six years later, I was back in Riverside City. I looked out the car window at streets I knew by heart, and it felt like another lifetime. It was the first time I had come back since I left.

Sophie, my five-year-old daughter, tipped her face up and held on to my sleeve. "Mom, can the doctors here really make me better?"

I tucked her scarf in around her. "Yes, they can."

By then, I had a family, a child, and a steady life. Besides, Ethan was in Alstern, and there was no chance we would run into each other.