Chapter 22 Smiles that don't reach the eyes
Hannah
Pet Patrol became the only place where time moved normally.
Days there passed in a rhythm I could predict; feedings, cleanings, paperwork, laughter drifting down hallways, Sienna’s voice calling out reminders. I clung to it like a lifeline. Every morning I woke with a singular, quiet relief...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2 Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3 Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4 Dinner with the Redford Family
5. Chapter 5 Dinner
6. Chapter 6 Shocked moment
7. Chapter 7 Nightmare aisle
8. Chapter 8 Unreal marriage
9. Chapter 9 Dreamless night
10. Chapter 10 Confidence wavered
11. Chapter 11 A legal inconvenience
12. Chapter 12 Unnoticed
13. Chapter 13 A rigid stillness
14. Chapter 14 Summoned
15. Chapter 15 Polished for display
16. Chapter 16 Glass smiles
17. Chapter 17 The one I was meant to choose
18. Chapter 18 The quiet before I break
19. Chapter 19 Sister, no longer
20. Chapter 20 A borrowed breath of joy
21. Chapter 21 Quiet truth and open hands
22. Chapter 22 Smiles that don't reach the eyes
23. Chapter 23 Fault lines beneath the suit
24. Chapter 24 When silence becomes the verdict
25. Chapter 25 Fractures in the dark
26. Chapter 26 Familiar strangers
27. Chapter 27 Fault lines
28. Chapter 28 Sugar and glass
29. Chapter 29 Notes played to an empty room
30. Chapter 30 Poppy
31. Chapter 31 Games without rules
32. Chapter 32 Friction
33. Chapter 33 Pot and kettle
34. Chapter 34 Tickets
35. Chapter 35 Brush strokes and bubbles
36. Chapter 36 Grease, quiet and the dark
37. Chapter 37 Lost signal
38. Chapter 38 The search
39. Chapter 39 Retrieved
40. Chapter 40 Joint rides
41. Chapter 41 Momo
42. Chapter 42 Amends
43. Chapter 43 Unfamiliar territory
44. Chapter 44 Meeting Jacob and Samantha
45. Chapter 45 Indulgences
46. Chapter 46 The stories we tell in elevator
47. Chapter 47 Unsettling proximities
48. Chapter 48 Lines I shouldn't cross
49. Chapter 49 Switch up
50. Chapter 50 The weight of quiet things
51. Chapter 51 Dilemma
52. Chapter 52 Fading footsteps
53. Chapter 53 Dottie
54. Chapter 54 Dinner
55. Chapter 55 Cancelled
56. Chapter 56 DND
57. Chapter 57 Drunk confrontation
58. Chapter 58 Morning after
59. Chapter 59 Whiplash
60. Chapter 60 Bad news
61. Chapter 61 Pool and shots
62. Chapter 62 Movie night
63. Chapter 63 Day apart
64. Chapter 64 Handwritten notes
65. Chapter 65 Dodgy
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