Chapter 463. To Make Things Right

ASHER

“You’re bad luck! Bad luck! Fuck… if—if I had known this would happen, I never should’ve let you back into my son’s life! You’re a curse!”

I couldn’t forget those words—words that Tate’s father had spat at me yesterday when I went to his wake.

I hadn’t wanted to go. Not to Tate’s, not even to Lee’s. I refused to see them lying in their coffins, refused to accept that they were really gone. And more than anything, I couldn’t forgive myself… because it was my fault. It was because of me that this was how things ended for them.

But Paige, Sarah, even Auntie and Uncle—they were persistent. They begged me to come, saying that if nothing else, I should see them one last time. They told me they didn’t want me to regret not saying goodbye. And with that… they managed to convince me.

Deep down, I didn’t want the last memory I had of them to be the way I had seen them last—covered in blood, struggling to hold on. At the very least, if I saw them now,