I’ve got to resist the temptation to manipulate people for my own benefit.

I just met the guy and I’m already toying with his mind. My actions are no different from my time in the city, and it is definitely something you wouldn’t even classify as “normal”.

Am I forever cursed to live an abnormal life? I moved here to start anew, to free myself from my previous life, though in some way, that part came true.

A new life did start, a completely different life. Instead of solving unsolved murder cases which drove our precinct to the brink of insanity, to living by myself in a village far from...