Chapter 184

Alison rubbed her forehead in frustration. "If you keep acting like this, she's only going to hate you more. Nobody likes someone who's obsessive or extreme." "I got it." Zachary lowered his sleeve with a calm and unreadable expression. "She told me not to do something so reckless again—like trying to take my own life. Dr. Holloway, doesn't that mean she still cares about me?" Alison didn't follow his line of thought. Instead, she smoothly changed the subject, guiding his attention elsewhere. She spoke gently, using her words like a compass to steer him through the therapy. The session lasted nearly four hours. When it ended, Alison offered him a sincere suggestion. She advised him to slowly begin distancing himself from the relationship, detaching from the person who had taken over so much of his heart. She told him he needed to shift the focus of his life and to stop pouring all his attention into someone who wasn't there anymore. He nodded on his way out as if he understood.