Chapter 315. A Wasted Week

LEE

“Kate… there’s nothing more we can do… stop… stop crying already.”

Ashton’s arms were still wrapped tightly around me, and I stayed pressed against his neck, sobbing uncontrollably. His hands moved gently along my back, an attempt to comfort me, to soothe the storm of emotions pouring out.

I didn’t want to cry anymore. I really didn’t. But no matter how much I tried to will myself to stop, the tears kept coming. Every time I thought about those seven days—seven days lost to this sleep—I felt the despair crash over me again.

Seven days gone, just like that. And if my calculations were correct, I had less than a week left here if this timeline followed the same rules as the first time I used the time turner… that I only had 30 days in this past life. Back then, I had assumed it was my first life. But no—Ashton and I had since learned that it wasn’t our first life at all, just the first past life he could remember.

Six days. That was all I had