Chapter 172 If Asher Wavers

• Amelia pressed her lips together, a powerless ache pooling in her chest.
• Of course, Zoey's first instinct was always the knife-sharpened word. For years, she had brandished threats of disownment or even letting her illness take its course whenever Amelia dared push back.
• "Do I not even get a single chance to choose?" Amelia's voice trembled, the strain cutting through the sterile air. "Because you chose wrong once, you've ruled that every man is another Dad?"