The ride back was suffocating.
Asli sat beside him, now his wife… but it meant nothing.
Nothing but chains.
"You didn't have to do this," she said quietly.
"Yes, I did."
"You could've let me go."
"No."
Her anger rose again. "Why?!"
Ferhat finally looked at her.
"Because I don't make the same mistake twice."
She frowned. "What mistake?"
He didn't answer.
And somehow…
That silence said everything.