Bella POV
"I didn't want you to stay for the wrong reasons." Asher replied in a small voice.
"I didn't want you to complete a bond out of guilt or pity or obligation. You have already been through enough people deciding things for you." His voice dropped. "I was not going to be another person on that list."
I stared at him and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had everything figured out for others except himself.
"Do you know what I thought when I woke up in that apartment?" I asked but Asher said nothing.
"I thought about you." I revealed.
"At that moment I opened my eyes, I did not think about my freedom or my plans or what I was going to do next. I thought about you and I scrambled off that bed and ran." I shook my head.
"I ran through an unfamiliar human town on blood mo
