Chapter 165

• THERON POV
• I heard Ami weeping through the phone after I told her Chun Kit would remain behind bars the sound of pure, unfiltered relief. Naturally, she denied it, swearing she hadn’t shed a single tear. I didn’t call her out. I let her keep the lie, pretended I believed her.
• Her emotions had simply spilled over. She was exhausted. We all were. And deep down, we both understood that Chun Kit’s imprisonment wasn’t some magical fix to the hell we’d been navigating.