Chapter 19
“No wonder you burned yourself out.”
“I guess not.”
“Why did you do it?” he asked.
“My parents can be very persuasive. And I didn’t know what I wanted to do anyway, so I went with their path, thinking it wouldn’t be so bad. I was wrong.”
Asher took the empty cup from me and put it with his own on the table. Then he wrapped his arm around my waist and hugged me close to his warm body. “I’m sorry.”
I shrugged. With the help of my therapist, I’d accepted a long time ago that it was no use dwelling on the past or thinking about all the million things I could have done differently. What was important was the future and that I learned from my mistakes so I wouldn’t repeat them.
“So what do you want to do?” he asked.
“What do you mean?”
“What are your dreams, Cory? Now that you can decide for yourself, take whatever path you want, not the one your parents chose for you.”