Chapter 291. This Is Our Second Life

LEE

I asked Ashton how he and Kate—well, how we—first met in this second life. He told me that it happened during the college orientation.

He shared with me how, ever since he was seven years old, the moment he remembered our first life, he had been searching for both Kate and Dylan. Years passed, and though he kept looking, nothing came of it. Eventually, he began to accept the possibility that things might be different in this life—that maybe in this second life, he was the only one who remembered. Maybe Kara and Jackson no longer existed here. He even considered that if they were alive, they might not remember their past lives or even look the same.

But everything changed during college orientation. That was when hope stirred in him again—when his will to live reignited. At the same time, fear gripped him, because it also meant that what I had told him in the past could still happen in this life: something bad might occur, no matter which lifetime we were