Chapter 139

• No matter how much I pleaded or wept, it was all in vain! Riley, Rose, and Ryan... I will never forgive those three people, Ethan. The humiliation and betrayal I endured in my past life are scars I can never erase," she said, her voice trembling with emotion.
• "Do you know why I'm so afraid of fire, Ethan? Because in my past life, they burned me alive. I can still feel the flames consuming me, the unbearable pain... They took everything from me. They killed me."
• Ethan's chest tightened as he listened to her broken voice. Her tears fell freely, each drop carving an ache deeper into his heart. He could almost see the horrific scene she described, the agony she must have felt. But more than the pain, what consumed him was guilt—a heavy, suffocating guilt. Where was he when she was suffering? Why hadn't he saved her? He had been there in her past life; he was sure of it. If he had tried harder, could he have stopped it all?