PROLOGUE

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WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED that the victim could become the villain?

That one choice could derail not just one life but two. And not just derail but cause a catastrophic annihilation—an annihilation neither party could survive.

All I wanted was to go home.

I’d fought for that. Schemed for that.

And when I’d finally earned it...I had to make the hardest choice imaginable.

I was the reason he fell off that cliff.

He was the reason I turned my back on my freedom.

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