I am SO sorry!

I fully plan on continuing this story, but life kind of got in the way. A lot.

I am deeply sorry for suddenly stopping where I did. Truth be told, I have actually written the next chapter many times. One of the saved versions of this chapter is over 60,000 words long. I didn't like it though. I was twisting the characters personalities to make the story go down the path I wanted it to go. I was also struggling a lot with how much dialogue was involved.

More than 300,000 words later, 200,000 of which were saved in various documents while the other 100k were deleted... I finally had a some stuff to work with. I was confident I would have a 50-80k chapter out within a couple of days.

Then life drama came along. Family stuff was especially bad but work was also a factor as well as friends and other personal relationships. It has been a messed up couple of months.

Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.

What most of you have been wondering though (based on my emails, messages and even a review) is whether or not I plan to continue.

Right now, I simply don't have the time.

**Sigh**

For the sake of the people that have been following this story all this time, I have been refusing to abandon this story. For those very same people (those of you reading this announcement) I will do my utmost to continue.

Deepest apologies.

When the next chapter is ready, I will delete this announcement and post it.

Much Love.

—Aspirer