Chapter 27: In Which He Leaves

Nine days had passed by in a jiffy. Sora had stuck by Ashton like glue, not that he minded, he knew she needed it and him too especially after they had a long talk about Ashton serving prison time which involved a to of crying on her side and a lot of convincing and soothing on his. He had come through to her eventually explaining to her that a year is a very short time as compared to twelve that he might have faced and it was worth the lifetime of happiness they would get without worrying about their safety all the time, he explained to her that this plan that they had come up with was the only alternative and she had to be strong for him. She didn't want him to take the other way out and become a murderer and a slave to that wretched Richard Takahashi so she begrudgingly agreed. It was the tenth day, the day of the deadline that Takahashi had given him was today and Ashton had come through on his side considering that the news channel now played the news of the 'shocking' death of t