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Chapters
CHAPTER 1 A Life Left Behind
CHAPTER 2 The Bracelet
CHAPTER 3 Tit For Tat
CHAPTER 4 The Sour Reunion
CHAPTER 5 Poisoned Roots
CHAPTER 6 Session Of Shadows
CHAPTER 7 What's Done Is Done
CHAPTER 8 Clause By Clause
CHAPTER 9 The Unrest
CHAPTER 10 The Watcher's Hand
CHAPTER 11 Alone, But Not
CHAPTER 12 Crossroads In The Dark
CHAPTER 13 Behind Closed Doors
CHAPTER 14 Uninvited Guests
CHAPTER 15 Under Siege
CHAPTER 16 Justice Or Ruin
CHAPTER 17 Voices In The Dark
CHAPTER 18 A Score To Settle
CHAPTER 19 Blood Debts And Broken Truths
CHAPTER 20 After The Rescue
CHAPTER 21 Back To Work
CHAPTER 22 The Stranger At The Table
CHAPTER 23 The Law Can't Follow
CHAPTER 24 The Descent Into Memory
CHAPTER 25 The Thief in Her Story
CHAPTER 26 The Weight Of Stillness
CHAPTER 27 The House Reacts
CHAPTER 28 The Other Side Of The Door
CHAPTER 29 The Quiet Uniform
CHAPTER 30 What The Silence Remembered
CHAPTER 31 A Quiet Man's War
CHAPTER 32 The Echo Between Hours
CHAPTER 33 Traces And Triggers
CHAPTER 34 The Recoil
CHAPTER 35 Faint Threads
CHAPTER 36 The Friend Who Doesn't Flinch
CHAPTER 37 The Wind Between Departures
CHAPTER 38 Veils Of The Familiar
CHAPTER 39 The Passenger Behind Me
CHAPTER 40 Hotel Of Quiet Truths
CHAPTER 41 The Devil You Remember
CHAPTER 42 The Appointment He Stole
CHAPTER 43 The Soft Science Of Control
CHAPTER 44 One Breath From The Fall
CHAPTER 45 Grey Light, Clear Mind
CHAPTER 46 Shifting Ground
CHAPTER 47 The Queen Falls
CHAPTER 48 The Cost Of Civility
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CHAPTER 42 The Appointment He Stole
(Luke Linderman's POV)
Hospitals always carried the same undercurrent—
a sharp sterility that clung to your throat, the quiet shuffle of urgency in slow motion, and that faint, unsettling calm that came from people pretending everything was okay.
I leaned back in the chair—one of the standar...