Chapter 171

The conversation with her half-sister pushed Maxi's already-addled mind into turmoil, and she began to question her feelings. In retrospect, everything was subject to doubt.

Why had she been so obsessed with Riftan? What had made her so irrational? In a little over a year, he had shaken her life to the core, made her want to live, and then sucked all the vitality from her. He had become her reason to live. But was that normal? It was possible that she had blindly followed him like a newborn duckling would its mother.

The moment uncertainty gripped her, even the things she had thought clear became muddled, and she found it impossible to unravel the tangled strings of her heart.