---- thank you. For seven years, you let me believe ina beautiful dream. Now that it's over, it's time for me to go. Don't waste your time missing me." Conrad read my last note without showing a single flicker of emotion. Then, like a man hell-bent on punishing himself, he pored over the chat records I'd leaked to the Ppaparazzi-reading them once, then twice, then again and again. He drowned in those messages from dusk till dawn. Finally, he made a call. "Call off the search for Jean. It's... no longer necessary." Most people would probably think a forest ranger's life was unbearably dull. Day after day, it was the same endless snow and unchanging woods. Even the animals and mountains stayed quiet. But I loved it. Honestly, I became an actress for the chance to ---- live countless different lives.