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Chapter 283 - 283/A Shield of Silk and Shadow

Chapter 283:

Steve's POV

I opened my eyes the next morning feeling as if a boulder was sitting on my chest. My head felt like it was going to explode from overthinking and the dark scenarios that hadn't stopped swirling in my mind all night. A sense of total helplessness crept into my limbs, as if I were paralyzed before a dead-end wall. Julie still insisted with a frightening coldness on aborting the child; that determination I saw in her eyes yesterday wasn't just a fleeting fit of anger, but a decision rooted in her wounded soul.

I was completely lost, torn between supporting her decision to rid her of this torment and my own moral opposition to the idea of ending a life. Yesterday, I exhausted every ounce of my physical and psychological strength to make her back down from her madness, but her body shook with defiance. She didn't calm down or stop trying to harm herself until I promised her, with a heavy heart, that I would find a solution today.

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