Chapter 146: The Reasons Why, Part 3

Realization wasn't a process too daunting for everybody in the room to overcome. There wasn't a single soul within these white walls that didn't come to a speedy conclusion of their own.

I did.

Irene did.

And Ash most definitely did. It was probably her out of the rest of us that should be the most affected by the words shared in this brief moment we had together... and she most definitely was.

"It was you?" Her voice was breathless, the strength from before all but usurped. "You summoned me... here?"

Jay met the disbelief in her emerald eyes, speaking out in a way that left no opportunity to misconstrue. "If only I've done it right. You wouldn't even have to ask me that question the way you did."

So many questions but not enough mouths to speak them out. My head was a flood of question marks yearning to break loose. This situation we found ourselves in was certainly, vastly more than we've bargained for.