Chapter 169 Enough Strength Left

• "And what exactly did he say?" Asher's words came out taut, each syllable like a thread pulled too tight.
• She lifted one shoulder in a casual shrug. "Everything he knows. And before you ask, he didn't tell me to stay with you. He just thought I deserved the truth."
• Only now did it strike her—she had met Asher's quiet devotion with silence, answering tenderness with distance. In Solomon's eyes, she must have seemed sorely unworthy of a man like Asher.