Chapter 49: Too Many Coincidences
Detective Philip was gone longer than expected.
Melissa kept glancing at the door of the café, her mind racing in a thousand directions. Her untouched drink sat in front of her, the ice already beginning to melt. She barely noticed it. Lydia, seated across from her, hadn’t taken a sip of hers eithe...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Outcast
2. Chapter 2: Happiness
3. Chapter 3: The Play
4. Chapter 4: Love Garden
5. Chapter 5: Miscommunication 
6. Chapter 6: The Get-Together
7. Chapter 7: True Love
8. Chapter 8: Emotion Rush
9. Chapter 9: Friendship
10. Chapter 10: Reunion
11. Chapter 11: Family
12. Chapter 12: A Day In Between
13. Chapter 13: A Moment Of Peace
14. Chapter 14: A Date To Remember
15. Chapter 15: Homeward Bound
16. Chapter 16: Echoes Of The Past
17. Chapter 17: A Mother's Love
18. Chapter 18: A Change In Routine
19. Chapter 19: Fragments Of Lydia
20. Chapter 20: Fears And Doubts
21. Chapter 21: Under The Surface
22. Chapter 22: The Weight Of Worry
23. Chapter 23: The Road Ahead
24. Chapter 24: A Morning In Motion
25. Chapter 25: Healing and New Beginnings
26. Chapter 26: The Unexpected Reunion
27. Why Did You Disappear?
28. Chapter 28: I Honestly Don’t Know
29. Chapter 29: When Fear Comes Home
30. A New Day, A New Question
31. Chapter 31: Unanswered Calls
32. Chapter 32: Pieces That Don’t Fit
33. Chapter 33: A Crime That Makes No Sense
34. Chapter 34: A Night To Stay
35. Chapter 35: Still in the Dark
36. Chapter 36: Zoom! Zoom!
37. Chapter 37: The First Visit
38. Chapter 38: A Mother’s Call, A Daughter’s Choice
39. Chapter 39: Everyone’s Laughing, Except Me
40. Chapter 40: The Phone Store
41. Chapter 41: A Mother’s Visit
42. Chapter 42: Quiet Acts of Love
43. Chapter 43 – Just Between Us
44. Chapter 44 – Shadows and Signals
45. Chapter 45 – Morning Rhythms
46. Chapter 46 – A New Morning
47. Chapter 47 – The Unexpected Visit
48. Chapter 48: Threads That Tangle
49. Chapter 49: Too Many Coincidences
50. Chapter 50: The Truth That Broke Her
51. Chapter 51: When Words Fail
52. Chapter 52: Shattered Stillness
53. Chapter 53: What Comes After the Silence
54. Chapter 54: Still, She Breathes
55. Chapter 55: Small Steps
56. Chapter 56: The First Flicker
57. Chapter 57: Waiting for the Right Time
58. Chapter 58: When the Phone Rings
59. Chapter 59: Under Pressure
60. Chapter 60: Holding On Through the Night
61. Chapter 61: The Calm Before Tomorrow
62. Chapter 62: The Waiting Hours
63. Chapter 63: The Circle Tightens
64. Chapter 64: Preparing for Tomorrow
65. Chapter 65: The Call for Clarity
66. Chapter 66: Shadows Next Door
67. Chapter 67: Plans for Tomorrow
68. Chapter 68: Not So Ordinary
69. Chapter 69: Uneasy Truths
70. Chapter 70: Trip To The Station
71. Chapter 71: The Waiting Room
72. Chapter 72: Dennis Surgery
73. Chapter 73: The Quiet Weight of the Night
74. Chapter 74: The Weight of the Day
75. Chapter 75: A Letter and a Realisation
76. Chapter 76: Holding On Through the Wait
77. Chapter 77: The Wait and the Visit
78. Chapter 78: The Distance Between Us
79. Chapter 79: Safe Hands and Soft Landings
80. Chapter 80: A Flicker in the Night
81. Chapter 81: A Stir in the Quiet
82. Chapter 82: A Shift in the Weekend
83. Chapter 83: Awakenings and Unravelings
84. Chapter 84: Lydia’s Abduction
85. Chapter 85: The Distance Between Us
86. Chapter 86: What Love Looks Like?
87. Chapter 87: The Night Everything Broke
88. Chapter 88: What Could Love Be?
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