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Chapters
Prologue
Chapter One: Tea, Peter Pan, and a Very Grumpy Alien
Chapter Two: Laundry Lessons and Jealous Aliens
Chapter Three: Secrets, Soup, and Storm Warnings
Chapter Four: Stew, Sulks, and Surrender
Chapter Five: Signals in the Dark
Chapter Six: Fractures and Fault Lines
Chapter Seven: Tea, Lies, and Bali Boys
Chapter Eight: Aisles and Alarms
Chapter Nine: A Plan Beneath the Moon
Chapter Ten: Moonlight, Meteors, and Half-Truths
Chapter Eleven: Echoes of the Mundane and the Mission
Chapter Twelve: Knocks No Longer
Chapter Thirteen: Between Popcorn and Promises
Chapter Fourteen: Diamonds and Dinner
Chapter Fifteen: Carnival Skies
Chapter Sixteen: The Dream of Nimoa
Chapter Seventeen: Kehan of Nimoa
Chapter Eighteen: Echoes and Plotting
Chapter Nineteen: The Truth Between Them
Chapter Twenty: Time to Weigh a Heart
Chapter Twenty-one: Brothers in Shadows
Chapter Twenty-two: Music, Rum, and Realizations
Chapter Twenty-three: Loose Ends and New Beginnings
Chapter Twenty Four: Stolen in the Shadows
Chapter Twenty five: Shackled Among Stars
Chapter Twenty Six: Fire in the Void
Chapter Twenty Seven: Blood and Fire
Chapter Twenty Eight: Through Fire and Blood
Chapter Twenty Nine: The Shadow that Slipped Away
Chapter Thirty: The Merchant’s Uneasy Guest
Chapter thirty one: Questions in the Dark
Chapter Thirty Five: More questions
Chapter Thirty Six: Days without Stars
Chapter Thirty seven: The Question
Chapter Thirty Eight: A Chamber of Choices
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Chapter Thirteen: Between Popcorn and Promises
The house felt emptier after Axir left.
Freya folded the last of her laundry, set the basket aside, and tried not to think about how strange it was—waiting for an alien man to return home. She told herself it wasn’t waiting, not really. Just… expecting.
When the door opened again a few hours later...