Chapter 259: The debts

Ava stood frozen, her mind a whirlpool of bittersweet memories and unhealed wounds. Her hand instinctively drifted to her abdomen, the phantom ache of loss washing over her as she remembered the child she had never met. The weight of that grief mingled with the fear of reopening her heart, a fear that had kept her guarded all this time.

She wasn’t ready to accept his proposal, not yet.