She had assumed that her heart would no longer hurt, but when she saw the back of Adair's departure, she found it difficult to breathe. The final man willing to stay at her side is about to abandon her.

Ada Wood, it turns out, isn't deserving of anything. She doesn't deserve to have people who love her, and she certainly doesn't deserve to be loved.

Why does everyone who loves her eventually abandon her? The reporters surrounded her like vampires, laying on her body and anxiously pressing her blood.

Ada Wood becomes disoriented when she looks at the faces and eventually falls in the center of a crowd. She had...