Chapter 36 Too Close to Pretend
Elspeth did not sleep after that.
How could she?
Ash’s words lingered heavily in the darkness between them long after silence settled back over the room.
Like you already belong beside me.
The tether had not recovered since.
It pulsed steadily beneath her skin now, warm and restless and painful...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Exile
2. Chapter 2 The Summoning
3. Chapter 3 Panicking
4. Chapter 4 Arrangements
5. Chapter 5 The Problem of Keeping a Demon
6. Chapter 6 The Road Back to Rowan Hollow
7. Chapter 7 What the Hollow Sees
8. Chapter 8 The Shape of a Choice
9. Chapter 9 A Demon, a Witch, and the Price of Blankets
10. Chapter 10 The Things They Carry Home
11. Chapter 11 The Things Buried Under Names
12. Chapter 12 A House That Remembers
13. Chapter 13 Things That Linger in the Dark
14. Chapter 14 The Hearth Witch at Midnight
15. Chapter 15 The Shape of Want
16. Chapter 16 The Space Between Them
17. Chapter 17 The Dangerous Shape of Want -Ash
18. Chapter 18 The Things He Says So Casually
19. Chapter 19 The Things She Lets Herself Want
20. Chapter 20 The Voice Beyond the Wards
21. Chapter 21 No Longer Safe
22. Chapter 22 The Walk Back Into the Hollow
23. Chapter 23 No Place Left Unnoticed
24. Chapter 24 One Room
25. Chapter 25 Too Much Daylight for This
26. Chapter 26 The Archives Beneath the Hall
27. Chapter 27 The Hollowing Mother
28. Chapter 28 When the Wards Break
29. Chapter 29 After the Screaming Stops
30. Chapter 30 The Problem With Quiet
31. Chapter 31 The Names It Knows
32. Chapter 32 Abyssal Customs
33. Chapter 33 The Shape of Happiness
34. Chapter 34 The Things Between Them
35. Chapter 35 The Space Beside Him
36. Chapter 36 Too Close to Pretend
37. Chapter 37 The Things They Cannot Undo
38. Chapter 38 The Edge of Ruin
39. Chapter 39 Morning After the Storm
40. Chapter 40 The Wards That Watch Them
41. Chapter 41 The Shape of Temptation
42. Chapter 42 The Thing at the Window
43. Chapter 43 What the Tether Knows
44. Chapter 44 The Hunger Between Them
45. Chapter 45 What the Bond Wants
46. Chapter 46 The Thing He Fears Most
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