I opened my mouth, but I couldn’t figure out what to say. I muttered quietly, my voice barely audible even to myself.

Betty must’ve sensed what I was thinking because she jumped in before I could spiral further. "You know Ashton was in the military, right? But what you don’t know is that he wasn’t just some regular soldier. He was part of a covert special ops team. For three years, he led operations that dismantled international criminal organizations. The stuff he dealt ...