Jasper’s POV
When she said it, Beside me, I wanted to believe her. I wanted to believe it so badly my chest ached with the effort of holding onto that hope. But even as she promised, even as her eyes steadied with that mix of grief and fire that was uniquely hers, I knew there was a part of her I would never be able to leash.
Scarlett was like flame. You could cup your hands around it, you could shield it from the wind, but you couldn’t cage it without smothering it. And I loved her too much to put her out.
Still… I had almost lost her. Signing those documents in the hospital had been the closest I had ever come to breaking. I could still feel the pen trembling between my fingers, the sting in my throat as I forced myself to scrawl my name. My child. My future. My wife. All in the balan
