Chapter 210: There has to be a way

Stefan had always thought he was the one who could hold it together. The fixer. The quiet strength. The man people came to when the world got too loud.

But after what he learned — after Steve looked him in the eye and told him he wasn’t going to fight, wasn’t going to try, wasn’t going to live — something inside Stefan cracked. Something heavy and old, something he didn’t even have a name for.