Saving Sami

Chapter 38 Signed In Blood And Hope

SAMI-
She stared at the pen in her hand like it was a loaded weapon. One signature. One scribbled name. That’s all it would take to close the door on the chaos, even if just for a little while.


“Babe,” Ace said gently, his fingers brushing her thigh beneath the table, “you don’t have to be afraid of it. This is us now.”
They were sitting in a stuffy real estate office with neutral walls and fake plants. A woman with too-white teeth had just slid the final set of documents across the table. The deed. The house. All of it.


Sami let out a slow breath, her heart beating so loud it echoed in her ears. She looked at Ace—grease-stained hands, a few lingering bruises on his jaw, that familiar glint of defiance in his eyes—but beneath all that, there was something softer. Something that only sh