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I flipped it open, astonished to see that every page was covered with her writing She’d written an entry in it every day, like a journal, except at the top of each day she’d started out her entry Dear Adaer seat, started the car and headed ho ht

Chapter Forty-One

Mia

The hotel roo was only a few blocks away froot back and she came out of the bathroom ready for bed, she paused I’d set up at the desk with ed in I was just about to put Adam’s flash drive in the USB port Moaht?"

I sed and held up the flash drive "Will it bother you? I don’t knohat this is Ada it in and look at it tonight"

Her brows rose "Ah, okay And, uht?"

I looked down and shrugged It had been cold, distant and aard I pretty ured everyone present could detect that

Mom sank onto the bed and folded her ar me "You need time And so does he"

I blinked "That’s what this past coupleus tih ether and apart"

I fiddled with the edge of the desk for a aze It was a delicate situation, to address things like this to a person as about to begin a new life with the person she loved "Who’s to say that the sadness is over with?" I said

"You never know, do you? Life is so uncertain You’ve learned that lesson this year There’s never the perfect time to choose to be with the one you love It’s a coood times and the bad That you’ll hold each other’s hand and do it together"

I nodded "Thanks, Mom And I want you to know that I’s with me and Adarown-ups and we’d learn to deal with it I was hopeful, anyway

Mohts, and I put on ed the flash drive into the correct port The screen on an to foring together to spell on Epoch auto I’d ever played before

I was standing on the shore of beautiful lake, a sunlit raphics were new and gorgeous This was an unreleased part of the game and I surmised that it would be part of the new expansion that hadn’t yet been revealed to players But as I used the controls to move my character around, words started to appear

The interface of the game normally did not behave like this, so I suraaether a private experience for on Epoch My eyes flew to the words on the screen, snatching up every one as if it were food and I a starving wo for sustenance

I know of no other, better way to coh this medium of 0s and 1s that is my second nature In this environ it, fell in love And like this beautiful place where you are now standing, that love was new, fresh, pristine An unfamiliar country for both of us And ere reluctant explorers

Until we lost our way…

And now the beautifulslowly but steadily until this idyllic landscape beca Except for those words…they kept coed the an to make mistakes, the moment we separated, and eachin cos I did I am tormented by the way I screwed up then, but I did it because this is the place where you left me, Emilia Completely, utterly in the dark

I took a deep breath, continuing to read and unwittingly bracingthat this wouldn’t be easy to read

"You are in a es, all alike"