บท 112: Chapter 112: My Kurt…is your Kurt

Chapter 112: My Kurt…is your Kurt

There are different kinds of pain. The sharp, the dull, the fiery and the delayed pain. Asher hated the last one because it was like a promise to come. It was the worst kind because knowing it was coming does nothing to prepare him to face it, it does nothing but only leave him with dread and anticipation in its wake.

"I will protect you, Calliope even if it's the last thing I do" it was a promise he intended to keep.

Asher felt the first pang.

 Oh boy! He knew then that he wasn't going to have a delayed heartbreak. His heartbreak was so instantaneous that it all but overwhelmed him, it shook even the very core of his body.

He hugged her and he closed his eyes. He was breathing so heavily and

He clung to her so tightly that Pepper didn't need a soothsayer to tell her that something was off about him.