Chapter 307. Wounded

ASHER

I didn’t know how I felt.

I mean, I did know, but my emotions were a whirlwind—fear, anxiety, and sadness all tangled together, leaving me overwhelmed.

A knot of nervousness tightened in my chest. Of course, Lee had gone back to our second life, and she hadn’t even told me. There was no plan, no discussion about what she would do or what she needed to change. She just took my diaries from my past life as Ashton, read them, and vanished into that timeline without so much as a word.

And then there was fear—fear that, once again, Lee’s efforts might not succeed. Even if she warned everyone about the disasters to come, what if they couldn’t stop it? What if history repeated itself?

And then… sadness. I missed my second life. Her return had begun to rewrite my memories, replacing fragments of my past with this new version, forcing me to relive everything all over again. It was bittersweet—like revisiting a home that no longer felt entirely your