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When he’d finally given up on that ridiculous hope, he turned his focus to more realistic probleh money to escape that miserable life Not an easy feat when he could land only dead-end jobs that barely paid anything His lack of education and useful job experience liot close to his goal, his father’s fishing business started struggling, and he’d been forced to hand over a large chunk of his savings to help keep them afloat

Life kept trying to beat hiain

And noas free

Not that the road ahead was going to be easy by any otten this far without being discovered and dragged ho fresh

It had taken hiam, at the northernmost tip of Finland, to Helsinki at the southernmost border He’d driven from the clan’s ho to risk anyone fro it stolen That was one sure way for the to leave

In Sodankylä, he’d grabbed a bus and ridden it as far as Kuusae of hitchhiking and buses until he finally reached Helsinki More than thirteen hundred kilometers fro honest, he still wasn’t far enough away from those people

Were they even looking for him? Maybe his parents Anyone else was just worried about the supplies he was supposed to bring back

His mobile phone had been bombarded with calls when he boarded the bus to Kuusamo By then, he should have already reported back

At first, he’d siet hi against the wishes of his family, of his clan

Fear had hirabbing the car, andup soain He’d never lived outside of his clan Definitely never lived in a place as big as Helsinki What the hell was he even thinking? He was going to get hi on the streets because he’d failed at this just like he failed at everything else in life

But ould he be going back to?

Disappointment in his mother’s eyes