For a moment, I thought about throwing the towel in, but it wasn’t like me to do that, even in a vulnerable state like this. My mother had taught me one major lesson in life and that was to never give up without a fight. I now see how hard she had to fight to just stay alive for as long as she had, and I would be damned if I was going to allow a little mind over matter to stop me from staying alive myself.
Just when I thought about that, the familiar scent of Chance grew closer, telling me that he was here for me. As if his scent awoke something within me, I found a newfound strength begin to awake within me, and the barrier wall that once felt impenetrable began to crumble within me. But as that wall began to fall, images of why I had placed those barriers up flashed before my closed ey
