Chapter 23 Back to the Start

• Ariana Sutton's POV
• After all that wandering, I still ended up in the small town that I used to stay in when I was five years old. This town was far from the hustle and bustle of the city—the skies here were clearer, and the air here was fresher. It felt like the place hadn't changed at all. I used to stay here with my mother. Her ashes had been buried in this town after she passed, in accordance with her final wishes. Both my mother and I were born in this town, and this town was also the start of my mother's disappointment.
• Returning to my starting point also meant that I might not ever meet Stefan again. Furthermore, it meant that I would have to forget the past twenty years of my life or regard it as one long dream, but to wake up from such a long dream was easier said than done.