"No. I just realized something. When I was in the future, I've always felt detached from my body. My emotions felt like they were locked away, and I couldn't experience the real joy of life. I had no contentment despite my achievements; my body was unfeeling to anything, physically and emotionally. And when I came into this body, every single feeling I had felt foreign, and I thought it wasn't coming from me." She looked into his eyes, where he was staring at her and listening to her attentively, and she continued to tell him something she wouldn't have ever told anyone before.
"Lucian, I wish I hadn't been sent to the future...I saw how Anne loved Selene and took very good care of her. She was loved by everyone and had a family, something I never had in the Eamon estate." She looked down at her lap and fought back the prickling at the back of her eyes and the burning in her throat.
