Richard POV.
I didn't expect Nora to come looking for me at the farm.
She appeared to me like a lost forest spirit, through a storm, soaked to the skin.
But I still closed the door!
When I'm in too many bad moods, I always do things that hurt people.
I didn't mean to hurt Nora.
I knew I couldn't blame Nora for what happened at the birthday party; she just wanted to surprise me.
But when I saw the person I hated most in my life, my emotions spiraled out of control.
After a short period of calm, it became clearer and clearer to me that Nora and I were not meant to be in the same world.
Even though I was no longer the poor boy who had nothing to lose, those feelings of inferiority and sensitivity that I had desperately tried to suppress were always there.
Nora drove away my most tru
