Chapter 227 Hospital Release

• After a restless night beneath the pale hospital lights, Asher lay awake, the steady beep of machinery measuring every beat of his reconsidered life.
• He saw it clearly at last. If being tethered to him was agony for her, then the only kindness left was to unfasten the lock and let her walk away.
• He had marched into her world believing he could reroute her destiny, believing his presence might banish the old shadows.