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Chapters
Chapter 1: The Dream That Stayed
Chapter 2: Exit Strategy
Chapter 3: Smoke & Shadows
Chapter 4: Smoke, Laughter, and That Summer
Chapter 5: Never Have I Ever
Chapter 6: A Blur, A Fall, A Message
Chapter 7: Champagne, Tulle, and Secrets
Chapter 8: Tension in the Bakery
Chapter 9: Curious Flames
Chapter 10: The Island Invitation
Chapter 11: The Diary of Desire
Chapter 12: Boarding, Baggage, and Bitches
Chapter 13: The Heat Between the Pages
Chapter 14: Floors Between Us
Chapter 15: The Voice in the Dark
Chapter 16: Red Hot & Rising
Chapter 17: Kiss the Flame
Chapter 18: Burned Into the Breeze
Chapter 19: The Unraveling
Chapter 20: Burn It Down, Baby
Chapter 21: Beach Heat
Chapter 22: Don’t Look at Me Like That
Chapter 23: Hook, Line, and Suspicion
Chapter 24: Eyes on Me
Chapter 25: Something’s Missing
Chapter 26: Promises and Uninvited Guests
Chapter 27: Tonight Is the Night
Chapter 28: Wedding Bells & Broken Noses
Chapter 29: The Quiet Ones Always Surprise You
Chapter 30: Garden of Secrets
Chapter 31: The Edge of Everything
Chapter 32: The Things We Run From
Chapter 33: The Wait Ends
Chapter 34: The Penthouse Invitation
Chapter 35: A Night to Remember
Chapter 36: The Slow Burn
Chapter 37: Tasting Desire
Chapter 38: The First Time
Chapter 39: The One Night Lie
Chapter 40: Taking My Place
Chapter 41: Morning Light and Gentle Goodbyes
Chapter 42: Not Just One Night
Chapter 43: Collision Course
Chapter 43: No Place to Hide
Chapter 44 – Messages & Mixed Signals
Chapter 45 – The Morning After
Chapter 46: Lunch Hour Confessions
Chapter 47: Under the Microscope
Chapter 48: No More Hiding
Chapter 49: Fogged Glass
Chapter 50: Permission & Confessions
Chapter 51: Crossroads
Chapter 52: The Courtship
Chapter 52: The Gift of Surrender
Chapter 53: Into the Unknown
Chapter 54: Under City Lights
Chapter 55: Rooftop Devotion
Chapter 56: The Wrong Kind of Attention
Chapter 57 : Unsettled
Chapter 58: Shadows in the Background
Chapter 59: A Night Out
Chapter 60: Secrets and Stress
Chapter 61: Silence
Chapter 62: Date Night
Chapter 63: Morning Light
Chapter 64: Lazy Brunch & Weekend Plans
Chapter 65: Welcome Home
Chapter 66: Yours, Completely
Chapter 67: Unannounced Guests
Chapter 68: Bagels, Wine, and Wild Hearts
Chapter 69: Plans Over Pancakes
Chapter 70: Shopping, Stares, and Subtle Promises
Chapter 71: Lipstick, Laughter, and Lingering Shadows
Chapter 72 – Note in the Boutique
Chapter 73: Night With the Twins
Chapter 74: The Text
Chapter 75-His Claim
Chapter 76: Shattered Calm
Chapter 77: Unwelcome Eyes
Chapter 78 – Hotel Morning
Chapter 79 – Luca’s Plan
Chapter 80 – The Edge of the Net
Chapter 81 – The Space Between Heartbeats
Chapter 82 – Watching You
Chapter 83 – No More Fear
Chapter 84 – Shifting Shadows
Chapter 85 – The Last Normal Day
Chapter 86 – Taken
Chapter 87 - Cold Chains
Chapter 88 – Missing
Chapter 89 – Fracture Lines
Chapter 90 – Harper’s Warning
Chapter 91 – Captive Months
Chapter 92 – Breaking Points
Chapter 93 – The Breakthrough
Chapter 94 – The Rescue
Chapter 95 – Aftermath & Reunion
Chapter 96 – First Hearing
Chapter 97 – Aftermath of the Hearing
Chapter 98 – Night Confession
Chapter 99 – Recovery Days
Chapter 100 – Second Court Date
Chapter 101 – Recovery & Promise
Chapter 102 – Daniel’s POV (Last Play)
Chapter 103 – The Spiritual Wedding
Chapter 104 – The Final Confrontation
Chapter 105 – Epilogue
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Chapter 105 – Epilogue
Six months later, the house felt like sunlight.
We’d traded the glass-and-steel penthouse for a home with wide windows and a garden that smelled of rosemary and mint. Harper said it suited me—suited us—better. I agreed. The city was still there, humming just beyond the gates, but here the air was s...