Chapter 4

My gaze, however, fell on the eighteen-year-old Colin standing off to the side.

Colin stood there in silence, tears glistening in his eyes.

"Colin, you promised me. Please, don't let anyone hurt me again, okay?" I pleaded to him.

The thirty-year-old Colin just frowned, obviously having no idea what I was talking about.

But the eighteen-year-old Colin squeezed his eyes shut in despair, too ashamed to meet my gaze.

Still, Colin nodded, hard.

As the eighteen-year-old Colin vanished, the world around me suddenly twisted and blurred.

Dana's arrogance, Colin's disgust and Taber's crying, all of it just disappeared in front…