Chapter 50: Lavender in the Dark
The ticking of the wall clock echoed through the house — slow and distinct, like droplets of molten metal falling into a void.
Anna opened her eyes. The pale morning light slipped through the gap in the curtain, cutting a thin line across the white bedsheet. The air carried a faint dampness, mingled...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Blood Contract
2. Chapter 2: Moving into the Mansion
3. Chapter 3: Where Shadows Wait
4. Chapter 4: As Life Knocks Upon the Door
5. Chapter 5: His Child
6. Chapter 6: When the Call Came
7. Chapter 7: The Flame Beneath the Silence
8. Chapter 8: Cruelty in Silence
9. Chapter 9: Too Late for Redemption
10. Chapter 10: I Carried You Without Love
11. Chapter 11: The Letter Beneath the Dust
12. Chapter 12: The Scar Over His Heart
13. Chapter 13: The Glance That Shifted the Silence
14. Chapter 14: Petals and Pain
15. Chapter 15: A Fragment from That Year
16. Chapter 16 – The Man Who Held My Heartbeat
17. Chapter 17 – The Fracture Between Us
18. Chapter 18: The first flutter of emotions
19. Chapter 19 – Where Cracks Let the Light In
20. Chapter 20: Slumber and the Confession
21. Chapter 21: More Than Fabric
22. Chapter 22: A Step Closer
23. Chapter 23: His Past, My Present
24. Chapter 24: A Name Not Mine
25. Chapter 25: Warmth In The Midst Of Winter
26. Chapter 26: A Petal in the Evening Light
27. Chapter 27: The Child I’ll Never Hold
28. Chapter 28: The Echo of a Heartbeat
29. Chapter 29: His Coat, Her Smile
30. Chapter 30: Whispers Over the Line
31. Chapter 31: The Quiet Kind of Care
32. Chapter 32: Until I Can No Longer Wait
33. Chapter 33: Whispers Between Lavender and Lies
34. Chapter 34: A Silence That Hurts
35. Chapter 35: A Bloodstained Morning
36. Chapter 36: The Name That Burns
37. Chapter 37: The Marionette Without a Heart
38. Chapter 38: When the Game Bleeds
39. Chapter 39: The Promise That Survived
40. Chapter 40: Celeste
41. Chapter 41: Blood Code
42. Chapter 42: Beneath the Pine Shadows
43. Chapter 43: When the Night Holds Us
44. Chapter 44: A Morning Woven in Light
45. Chapter 45: Between Sunlight and Shadows
46. Chapter 46: The Scent of Roses in the Morning Light
47. Chapter 47: A Fragile Morning
48. Chapter 48: The Birthday Flame
49. Chapter 49 : The Milk, the Photograph, and the Night
50. Chapter 50: Lavender in the Dark
51. Chapter 51: The Grandfather’s Shadow
52. Chapter 52: A Prayer in Silence
53. Chapter 53: The Fragile Light
54. Chapter 54: The Corridor of Shadows
55. Chapter 55: Echoes of an Unborn Dream
56. Chapter 56: The Seed of Hope
57. Chapter 57: The Silent War
58. Chapter 58: Homecoming Shadows
59. Chapter 59: A Day Woven in Tenderness
60. Chapter 60: Pain and Love
61. Chapter 61: The Kiss That Sealed Forever
62. Chapter 62: When Shadows Follow
63. Chapter 63: You Can’t Hide Forever
64. Chapter 64: The Vanishing
65. Chapter 65: Held Through the Night
66. Chapter 66: A Promise of Shelter
67. Chapter 67: Shadows Before Departure
68. Chapter 68: Echoes in the Terminal
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