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Chapters
Chapter 1: Meet Cute
Chapter 2: I Bother With Purpose
Chapter 3: Daniel
Chapter 4: Naked Shall You Return
Chapter 5: The Price of Salvation
Chapter 6: April is Too Spring-y
Chapter 7: The Golden Boy and the Serial Offender
Chapter 8: Rain Delay
Chapter 9: Not Really Here
Chapter 10: All The Wrong Places
Chapter 11: Room For One More
Chapter 12: Tell Me Something Good
Chapter 13: Cat-fishing
Chapter 14: A Knock At The Storm
Chapter 15: The One Who Showed Up
Chapter 16: One Month Probation
Chapter 17: Borrowed Things
Chapter 18: Two Cinnamon Rolls
Chapter 19: For Research Only
Chapter 20: The Shelter’s New Volunteer
Chapter 21: Memorize and Deleter
Chapter 22: Toby’s No Pressure Coffee Invite
Chapter 23: Private House Tour
Chapter 24: The Whiteboard Rules
Chapter 25: A Foot In the Door
Chapter 26: Too Close
Chapter 27: Curious Questions
Chapter 28: Not a Date
Chapter 29: After Dark
Chapter 30: Just Checking
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Chapter 26: Too Close
Oliver’s eyes fluttered open to a ceiling he didn’t recognize.
For a second, he smiled—slow, content, warm in the chest kind of smile. The kind you woke up with when life felt good. He was in Del’s house. In a bed that wasn’t his, but was starting to feel like it could be. The room was still dim, s...