Chapter 122

"Amelia. I love you too. You have to stop blaming yourself, I played a part too. You know how guilty I feel about being so dumb and delivering you straight to him? I couldn't even look you in the face at the hospital. I wasn't the only one he assaulted. He hurt you too. I don't know if I will ever forgive myself." Ashley starts crying and naturally, I follow. 

"You can flare up at his friends pestering you. You can threaten to report them for harassment. That should make them back off. You can stand your ground that you weren't close to him so you don't know whatever happened to him." I say, sniffing same time as she is. Overwhelmed by emotions. 

"I can flare up, I guess." Ashley says, laughing through her tears and sniffles. I do the same. Though I feel the invisible line connecting us getting weaker by the day due to the physical distance between us and the heap of other issues creating a gulf. At the forefront is her lack of trust in Linc. 

I am faced wi