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Chapters
Chapter 1: The collision
Chapter 2: The deal
Chapter 3: The rules
Chapter 4: The first public appearance
Chapter 5: Crack in the ice
Chapter 6: A night of pretending
Chapter 7: The storm behind his eyes
Chapter 8: When the world watches
Chapter 9: A seemingly meaningless kiss
Chapter 10: The breaking point
Chapter 11: A glimpse of the past
Chapter 12: The business trip
Chapter 13: When lines are crossed
Chapter 14: The past comes knocking
Chapter 15: The breaking silence
Chapter 16: The edge of control
Chapter 17: A risk worth taking
Chapter 18: Ghosts of grey manor
Chapter 19: Close enough to hurt
Chapter 20: Unraveling the truth
Chapter 21: A public betrayal
Chapter 22: Lines that can't be redrawn
Chapter 23: A shadow from the past
Chapter 24: The attack
Chapter 25: A promise made
Chapter 26: A world between us
Chapter 27: The burning touch
Chapter 28: His world, his rules
Chapter 29: Unspoken confessions
Chapter 30: Heartache
Chapter 31: A dance in the dark
Chapter 32: The edge of the abyss
Chapter 33: A dark night
Chapter 34: Splinters of dawn
Chapter 35: After the fall
Chapter 36: The cracks beneath us
Chapter 37: The fragile hours
Chapter 38: Fractures in the light
Chapter 39: Buried emotions
Chapter 40: Gentle rain
Chapter 41: Fragile ground
Chapter 42: Slipping through fingers
Chapter 43: The calm before the storm
Chapter 44: A reluctant escape
Chapter 45: The weight of normal
Chapter 46: Back into the light
Chapter 47: The ripple effect
Chapter 48: Cracks in the foundation
Chapter 49: The shadow in the crowd
Chapter 50: The devil you know
Chapter 51: A dark past
Chapter 47: The eve of the storm
Chapter 52: Intertwined fates
Chapter 54: The warning
Chapter 55: Doubts
Chapter 56: A necessary information
Chapter 57: A possible future
Chapter 58: Tiny fractures
Chapter 59: Fear or hope
Chapter 60: The storm arrives
Chapter 61: Together
Chapter 62: The plan
Chapter 63: The hunter and the hunted
Chapter 64: Shadows and smoke
Chapter 65: Flight
Chapter 66: Breaking point
Chapter 67: The invitation
Chapter 68: The final confrontation
Chapter 69: The fall of the phantom
Chapter 70: Climax
Chapter 71: A new dawn
Chapter 72: Beacon
Chapter 73: Learning how to breathe again
Chapter 74: Happiness
Chapter 75: A love that stays
Chapter 76: The weight of forever
Chapter 77: Unquestionable love
Chapter 78: It begins
Chapter 79: Tranquility
Chapter 80: Joyful bliss
Chapter 81: Sunrise
Chapter 82: Temptations from the past
Chapter 83: Doubts
Chapter 84: Shadows at the door
Chapter 85: The garden
Chapter 86: The cracks he tried to widen
Chapter 87: Heartache
Chapter 88: Tough love
Chapter 89: Mine to lose
Chapter 90: Whispered insecurities
Chapter 91: Distant hearts
Chapter 92: Weird dinner
Chapter 93: My biggest fear
Chapter 94: The question in the moonlight
Chapter 95: Will you marry me?
Chapter 96: A fragile bond
Chapter 97: Fragile expectations
Chapter 98: Broken calm
Chapter 99: Silent confessions
Chapter 100: Echoes of comfort
Chapter 101: Frayed promises
Chapter 102: Twilight of crossroads
Chapter 103: Weighing the heart
Chapter 104: Another escape
Chapter 105: Whispers in masquerade
Chapter 106: Eyes in the dark
Chapter 107: Unspoken fears
Chapter 108: Underneath
Chapter 109: Under the surface
Chapter 110: Whispers through glass
Chapter 113: Changing shadows
Chapter 112: The unseen guest
Chapter 113: Echoes in the dark
Chapter 114: The third shadow
Chapter 115: The forgotten letters
Chapter 116: The masquerade returns
Chapter 117: The whisper in the crowd
Chapter 118: The broken mask
Chapter 119: The hidden witness
Chapter 120: The reflection speaks
Chapter 121: The trap set
Chapter 122: Glass houses
Chapter 123: Evelyn’s silence
Chapter 124: The burned letter
Chapter 125: The locked drawer
Chapter 126: The number you blocked
Chapter 127: The edge of patience
Chapter 128: Ghosts between us
Chapter 130: Breathing room
Chapter 131: The quiet between us
Chapter 132: Threadbare trust
Chapter 133: Rain on the glass
Chapter 134: What remains unsaid
Chapter 135: Safe enough
Chapter 136: The shape of silence
Chapter 137: One breath apart
Chapter 138: The mirror room
Chapter 139: Glass edges
Chapter 140: The quiet things
Chapter 141: The way he watches her
Chapter 142: Language of flowers
Chapter 143: Dinner under the stars
Chapter 144: Morning in gold
Chapter 145: The shape of stillness
Chapter 146: Morning light
Chapter 147: Silence between the waves
Chapter 148: After the tide
Chapter 149: Tranquility
Chapter 150: The ghost in her inbox
Chapter 151: Post storm
Chapter 152: Morning, still
Chapter 153: Quiet shoreline
Chapter 154: Red lipstick and rain
Chapter 155: Post rain
Chapter 156: A piano in the dark
Chapter 157: The stillness after
Chapter 158: Lines that shouldn’t be crossed
Chapter 159: The soft armor of ordinary
Chapter 160: The warmth we return to
Chapter 161: Safe to say no
Chapter 162: A kind of stillness
Chapter 163: The confrontation plan
Chapter 164: Aftermath
Chapter 165: Pure bliss
Chapter 166: The picnic in the park
Chapter 167: The woman at the gallery
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Chapter 35: After the fall
The villa was stifling.
Although the doors had been thrown open and the fresh air came pouring in, the air felt too thick . The rooms all stank of antiseptic and of smoke, but I was sure that I could still smell the cold metallic smell of blood beneath.
My blood.
I gripped the weave of Caspian's T...