Chapter 17

ASHER

I had no idea what I was doing. The only thing you could come up with is telling her she's moving in with you. Just when I thought you couldn't get any way worse.

I watched the light dim from her eyes, and I was going to retract my statement when she placed her small hands against my chest and gave me a push. I didn't budge, of course, but I could spot the rage in her eyes from the way she looked at me.

I saw the resentment she had for me in full force, and I wished for it to be something else.

"First, you take one year of my life. Then you take away my choices. And then you get to decide where I live too?” She snapped at me. If the height difference wasn't obvious, perhaps she would have attempted to punch me. It didn't make her less capable of it.

She did the most unpredictable things; you could never tell what she was going to do next, so maybe that punch was coming. You deserve it.

“You shouldn't have thought about that when you stole money from me,” I said. I regretted