Chapter 2206 One Year Pledge
- The room lay still, so still it felt as if every tick of the wall clock had been smothered in cotton. Dust spiraled through a single shaft of afternoon light, and even the air seemed to hold its breath.
- Jason clenched his fists, the knuckles whitening. "There were... things I hadn't finished resolving back then." His voice rasped, each word dragged across invisible barbed wire.
- In truth, he and Chelsea had only been an official couple for a handful of months—barely long enough to mark the seasons—yet her name had already grown roots around his heart.