If Ashley was being honest, she had stopped relying on the events of her previous life after the ambush.
The moment she prevented it from happening, she knew things would change.
That ambush had claimed lives. Stopping it could have greatly affected Lucian and Dominion.
And it did.
Several events shifted because of her interference. Without waiting for another major incident, she relocated their base to a neighborhood that offered them a strategic advantage.
But those changes came with risks.
There would always be things she couldn't predict, no matter how prepared she was.
One of them was Lucian's illness.
Ashley was grateful they had caught it in time and received help. She was grateful Lucian had been saved and was no longer dying.
That outcome was far better than in her previous life.
At the same time, however, her anxiety had begun to rise as she noticed more and more oddities.
