Chapter 85 The gifts
Timothy
The last of the guests trickled out slowly, the once-lively estate settling into a quieter rhythm. The evening had stretched long past sunset, and now the house felt almost hollow in comparison to the laughter and voices that had filled it only hours before.
I stood near the entrance hall,...
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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
66. Chapter 66 Office tension
67. Chapter 67 Applause
68. Chapter 68 After party
69. Chapter 69 Late night cereal
70. Chapter 70 Catching feelings
71. Chapter 71 Avoidance
72. Chapter 72 Expensive gifts
73. Chapter 73 Concerned
74. Chapter 74 Paint and dance
75. Chapter 75 Sunlight
76. Chapter 76 Cloud watching
77. Chapter 77 At midnight
78. Chapter 78 The visitor
79. Chapter 79 In Love or Not ?
80. Chapter 80 Operation Secret Party
81. Chapter 81 To Throw A Party
82. Chapter 82 The emergency
83. Chapter 83 The surprise
84. Chapter 84 Question of the past
85. Chapter 85 The gifts
86. Chapter 86 Unspoken
87. Chapter 87 The P.I
88. Chapter 88 Detour
89. Chapter 89 Dinner on the terrace
90. Chapter 90 Stargazing
91. Chapter 91 Flee
92. Chapter 92 Caught
93. Chapter 93 Plans for breakfast
94. Chapter 94 Calling Sienna
95. Chapter 95 Morning after the kiss
96. Chapter 96 Paying penance
97. Chapter 97 The P.I
98. Chapter 98 Breakfast with sienna
99. Chapter 99 Nate and Natalie
100. Chapter 100 Too close
101. Chapter 101 Pinky Promise
102. Chapter 102 Back in his arms
103. Chapter 103 Stay a little longer
104. Chapter 104 Turned down
105. Chapter 105 Table and tension
106. Chapter 106 Ignored
107. Chapter 107 Butting heads
108. Chapter 108 Old Ghosts, new threats
109. Chapter 109 The Art Room
110. Chapter 110 Detour
111. Chapter 111 The food truck
112. Chapter 112 Grease and roundtable
113. Chapter 113 Restless Quiet
114. Chapter 114 The like
115. Chapter 115 Sienna cones visiting
116. Chapter 116 Cookies and milk
117. Chapter 117 Investigating
118. Chapter 118 The unexpected visitor
119. Chapter 119 Stiff reunion
120. Chapter 120 Rebuffed
121. Chapter 121 A fine line
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