Chapter 55: When the Lights Come Back
We didn’t speak on the drive back.
Rain had started again — thin, needling, relentless. It made the road blur beneath the headlights, the world folding into streaks of light and shadow.
Every sound felt amplified — the turn of the tyres, the hum of the wipers, my heartbeat against the seatbelt.
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Other Woman
2. Chapter 2 Promises in the Dark
3. Chapter 3 The Crash
4. Chapter 4 Strangers in our Bed
5. Chapter 5 Home is a Lie
6. Chapter 6 The Mistress Returns
7. Chapter 7 Emily's Manipulation
8. Chapter 8 The Office Showdown Escalates
9. Chapter 9 Shattered Trust
10. Chapter 10 The Confrontation
11. Chapter 11 The Doubt
12. Chapter 12 Counter Strike
13. Chapter 13 "Lines Crossed"
14. Chapter 14: The Seed of Doubt
15. Chapter 15: The Phone
16. Chapter 16: Traps and Lies
17. Chapter 17: Whispers and Public Confrontation
18. Chapter 18: Cracks in Silence
19. Chapter 19: Digging at the Cracks
20. Chapter 20: Emily's POV
21. Chapter 21: Shattered Silence
22. Chapter 22: Breaking Point; The Meeting
23. Chapter 23: The Office Trap
24. Chapter 24: Cracks in the Story
25. Chapter 25: The Scroll
26. Chapter 26: Fault Lines
27. Chapter 27: Gabriel Pulled In
28. Chapter 28: A Crack in the Lie
29. Chapter 29: The Stage She Built
30. Chapter 30: War in the Living room
31. Chapter 31: The Demand, The Advantage, The Duel
32. Chapter 32: The Watcher
33. Chapter 33: The Doubt Between Us
34. Chapter 34: The Man in the Dark
35. Chapter 35: The Puppet Strings
36. Chapter 36: The Switchable Smile
37. Chapter 37: The Memory Splinters, The Vanishing
38. Chapter 38: The Unravelling
39. Chapter 39: The Key
40. Chapter 40: The Photo
41. Chapter 41: The Break In
42. Chapter 42: The Confession
43. Chapter 43: The Shot
44. Chapter 44: The Escape, The Woman in the Fog
45. Chapter 45: Shadows Don't Stay Buried
46. Chapter 46: The Warehouse of Ghosts
47. Chapter 47: The Aftermath
48. Chapter 48: The Thread Beneath the Silence
49. Chapter 49: False Reflection
50. Chapter 50: The Breaking Point
51. Chapter 51: Home Coming
52. Chapter 52: The Father Equation
53. Chapter 53: The Other Side of the Mirror
54. Chapter 54: The Signal Room
55. Chapter 55: When the Lights Come Back
56. Chapter 56: The Final Phase
57. Chapter 57: The Relay
58. Chapter 58: Ashes Twice
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