Chapter 41

“Let go of the past.”

—Robert Greene.

“True discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.”

—Adam Braun.

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

—Oprah Winfrey.

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Everett’s POV

When I was nine years old, my mom and dad quarreled daily and constantly. They were at the verge of filing for a divorce because the marriage wasn’t working out. Dad had mistresses and hardly cared about mom. Whoever said happily ever after existed is a bloody liar. Because this is reality. It was one of the traumatic experience of my life. It was a very painful moment.

And at ten, it started innocently enough during summer. Mom complained of rapid headache daily and she was late diagnosed of brain tumor. She was dying physically, I was dying emotionally. I could feel the pains too. Death was written everywhere and I had scary nightmares to back it up. It was a ginormous predicament. She was later flown to India for surgery. The surgery came out successfully but