Chapter 54: The First of Every Month
Clara's POV
"Don't lose it."
That was all Julian said before getting up and heading into the bathroom.
The door closed behind him, and the sound of running water followed almost immediately.
I lay in bed, the thin chain clenched in my fist, the old ring pressing into my palm. It had lost the...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Museum and the Mouse
2. Chapter Two: Do You Want to Come?
3. Chapter 3: The Dinner Standoff
4. Chapter 4: The Durian Incident
5. Chapter 5: What Survives in the Fridge
6. Chapter Six: And How Exactly Do You Plan to Manage That?
7. Chapter 7: Feeding the Cat
8. Chapter Eight: And Then, You Fell for Her
9. Chapter Nine: Reasons Hard to Explain
10. Chapter Ten: Call a Car?
11. Chapter Eleven: Coming to Take You Home
12. Chapter Twelve: Tomorrow
13. Chapter Thirteen: Four Times
14. Chapter Fourteen: Forgot Them Again
15. Chapter Fifteen: Come a Little Closer
16. Chapter 16: The Temperature of Honey
17. Chapter Seventeen: Sweet
18. Chapter Eighteen: Two Fingers of Light
19. Chapter Nineteen: I Couldn't Sleep Either
20. Chapter Twenty: Four Times in One Night
21. Chapter Twenty-One: The One
22. Chapter 22
23. Chapter 23: On the Way
24. Chapter 24
25. Chapter 25: The "Someone Else"
26. Chapter 26
27. Chapter 27
28. Chapter 28
29. Chapter 29: What That Ring Was Really For
30. Chapter 30
31. Chapter 31: Peel Them for Me
32. Chapter 32: You Scared Me
33. Chapter 33: It’s Perfectly Normal for My Wife to Pay
34. Chapter 34: The Family Account
35. Chapter 35: Meeting Grandfather Tonight
36. Chapter 36: Buy Another Pair
37. Chapter 37: Replacing a Four-Hundred-Year-Old Ring
38. Chapter 38: Two Centimeters Shorter
39. Chapter 39: The Other Side of the Wall
40. Chapter 40: Beacon Hill's Four Hundredth Winter
41. Chapter 41: His Wife
42. Chapter 42: You Are My Wife
43. Chapter 43: They've Been Waiting for You
44. Chapter 44: When Are You Going to Give Me a Child
45. Chapter 45: Let Sterling Move In
46. Chapter 46: Tomorrow Evening, Sterling Will Go to Beacon Hill
47. Chapter 47: The Immortal Blood Oranges
48. Chapter 48: A Four-Page List
49. Chapter 49: You'll Be Quite a Handful for That Household
50. Chapter 50: That Blanket
51. Chapter 51: He Ran Up the Stairs
52. Chapter 52: You Married Me
53. Chapter 53: Don't Lose It
54. Chapter 54: The First of Every Month
55. Chapter 55: Keep Your Wife in Check
56. Chapter 56: Thirty-Four Minutes
57. Chapter 57: Professor Mason
58. Chapter 58: Tell Me a Story
59. Chapter 59: What Did You Say Last Night
60. Chapter 60: No More "Professor Mason"
61. Chapter 61: Julian
62. Chapter 62: What Exactly Is "Two"?
63. Chapter 63: One Bedroom
64. Chapter 64: Eight Left
65. Chapter 65: Eight Times What
66. Chapter 66: Seven
67. Chapter 67: Deduct Eight
68. Chapter 68: Seven — I Know
69. Chapter 69: That Is Your House
70. Chapter 70: Half the Wardrobe
71. Chapter 71: He Called Me Ms. Lind
72. Chapter 71: He Called Me Ms. Lind（2）
73. Chapter 73: When Were You Going to Tell Me
74. Chapter 74: Don't Leave Me Outside the Door
75. Chapter 75: Don't Leave Me Outside the Door（2）
76. Chapter 76: He Knew I'd Be Here
77. Chapter 77: Monday Is Yours
78. Chapter 78: Covenant Consent & Irreversibility
79. Chapter 79: This One Doesn't Go on the Ledger
80. Chapter 80: Not Weak—Held Back
81. Chapter 81: You Signed a Contract, Not Your Blood
82. Chapter 82: Not a Blank Space
83. Chapter 83: Bring the Marriage Certificate
84. Chapter 84: The Marriage Is Real, and So Are the Problems
85. Chapter 85: The Card Didn't Work Anymore
86. Chapter 86: The Fifth Slot Was Empty
87. Chapter 87: There Is Another Way
88. Chapter 88: This Time, I Heard You
89. Chapter 89: Who Made the Call
90. Chapter 90: Change the Conclusion
91. Chapter 91: He Is My Husband
92. Chapter 92: The Name on the Catalogue
93. Chapter 93: The Line She Left Out
94. Chapter 94: You Can Tell Me
95. Chapter 95: June Is Real Too
96. Chapter 96: I Have Corrections to Make Too
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