Chapter 155 Nothing Worth the Wait
I hesitated at the chapel door, every instinct in my body pulling in the opposite direction of where Elder Ezekiel stood waiting.
Something about him made my skin crawl in a way I couldn't fully explain — not memory, not anything concrete I could point to and say 'this is why.'
Just a deep, wor...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The First Sin
2. Chapter 2 Dangerous Proximity
3. Chapter 3 Birthday in the House of God
4. Chapter 4 Stained on My Birthday
5. Chapter 5 Secrets and Shadows
6. Chapter 6 Caught in the Web
7. Chapter 7 Something Big Was Coming
8. Chapter 8 The Lies We Tell
9. Chapter 9 Falling
10. Chapter 10 The Knock
11. Chapter 11 The Midnight Visitor
12. Chapter 12 Price of Sin; and More Risks
13. Chapter 13 The Mask Slips
14. Chapter 14 Cornered
15. Chapter 15 The Confession
16. Chapter 16 First Day Gone Wrong
17. Chapter 17 Another New Side of Him
18. Chapter 18 The Words I Can't Say
19. Chapter 19 I Had To Let It Out
20. Chapter 20 The Home Visit
21. Chapter 21 Wasn't Ready For It
22. Chapter 22 Rehearsal for Ruin
23. Chapter 23 The Photograph
24. Chapter 24 Coming Storm
25. Chapter 25 The Purity Ball Pt I — Beginning
26. Chapter 26 Purity Ball Pt II— Where It All Started
27. Chapter 27 Purity Ball Pt III— Purity Is Obedience
28. Chapter 28 Purity Ball Pt IV— The Noose Tightens
29. Chapter 29 Purity Ball Pt V— Exposed
30. Chapter 30 Purity Ball Pt VI— The Mask and the Monster
31. Chapter 31 The Purity Ball Pt VII— the Parking Lot
32. Chapter 32 Purity Ball Pt VIII— The Scholarship Offer
33. Chapter 33 Known Faces
34. Chapter 34 The Space Between
35. Chapter 35 Cold
36. Chapter 36 The Devil's Holiday
37. Chapter 37 Drunk
38. Chapter 38 One Plus One
39. Chapter 39 Red
40. Chapter 40 Blackout
41. Chapter 41 The Morning After Everything
42. Chapter 42 The Whitetakers
43. Chapter 43 First Night
44. Chapter 44 Him?
45. Chapter 45 Breakfast at the Long Table
46. Chapter 46 Confusion
47. Chapter 47 Learning and Settling
48. Chapter 48 The East Wing
49. Chapter 49 Lies Perfectly Constructed.
50. Chapter 50 What We Don't Say
51. Chapter 51 What We Do Say
52. Chapter 52 Dangerous Daylight
53. Chapter 53 The Dinner Table
54. Chapter 54 Uncontrollable Desires
55. Chapter 55 Sleeping Dogs
56. Chapter 56 Ask
57. Chapter 57 One Figure
58. Chapter 58 Where is Grace?
59. Chapter 59 Collected
60. Chapter 60 They’re Here
61. Chapter 61 Wonderful Actress.
62. Chapter 62 'He's Manipulating You!'
63. Chapter 63 Not What You Think
64. Chapter 64 Mia's Party
65. Chapter 65 History
66. Chapter 66 The Balcony
67. Chapter 67 Corridors of Emotions
68. Chapter 68 The Accident
69. Chapter 69 His Side of the House
70. Chapter 70 Doorway
71. Chapter 71 You Already Ruined Me
72. Chapter 72 First Sunday
73. Chapter 73 Deacon Lawrence
74. Chapter 74 The Foyer
75. Chapter 75 You've Been In The East Wing.
76. Chapter 76 The Smiling Snake
77. Chapter 77 The Old Street
78. Chapter 78 Kidnapped
79. Chapter 79 The Room That Remembers
80. Chapter 80 Eli's Rage
81. Chapter 81 I Should Never Have
82. Chapter 82 What She Carries
83. Chapter 83 The Version That Shows Up
84. Chapter 84 The Wife Who Knew
85. Chapter 85 My Stepdaughter
86. Chapter 86 Authorization: He Didn't Know
87. Chapter 87 Under Lock and Key
88. Chapter 88 Mapping Out My Escape Plan
89. Chapter 89 Saved by the Bell
90. Chapter 90 The Wrong Rescue
91. Chapter 91 Taillights
92. Chapter 92 What the Ground Knew
93. Chapter 93 The Man Who Was Supposed to Be Dead
94. Chapter 94 Too Late
95. Chapter 95 How Do You Know All That?
96. Chapter 96 The Man Behind the Pulpit
97. Chapter 97 Quarry Road
98. Chapter 98 The Man Who Fled Smoothly
99. Chapter 99 I'm Here; Thanks to Your Mum.
100. Chapter 100 What Remains After the Woods
101. Chapter 101 Survived
102. Chapter 102 The Road That Almost Ended Us
103. Chapter 103 Memory Loss: The Girl Who Woke Up Empty
104. Chapter 104 Whispers in the White Room
105. Chapter 105 The Voice I Knew
106. Chapter 106 The Endless White Corridor
107. Chapter 107 The Scream That Woke the Ward
108. Chapter 108 The Name Without a Face
109. Chapter 109 The Word That Slipped
110. Chapter 110 Beautiful Like Marilyn Monroe
111. Chapter 111 Jealous
112. Chapter 112 The People Who Waited
113. Chapter 113 Cruel Stepbrother
114. Chapter 114 The Shrine: The Room Nobody Mentioned
115. Chapter 115 Obsession
116. Chapter 116 Rejected
117. Chapter 117 Rest Is For The Wicked.
118. Chapter 118 Zealous
119. Chapter 119 I'm No God
120. Chapter 120 I'm Not Driving Her, Rebecca!!!
121. Chapter 121 Let You Get Kidnapped
122. Chapter 122 Gods Don't Run
123. Chapter 123 The Man Who Thinks He's Untouchable
124. Chapter 124 Daniel Ashford
125. Chapter 125 The Masked Stranger???
126. Chapter 126 The Name That Broke the Silence
127. Chapter 127 Anonymity
128. Chapter 128 The Weight of Forgotten Sins
129. Chapter 129 The Midnight Vigil
130. Chapter 130 The Beginning of The End For Real
131. Chapter 131 "Your Son is Bleeding and You’re Thinking About the Ministry?"
132. Chapter 132 THE GIRLS WHO WERE SILENCED.
133. Chapter 133 The Roads I Didn't Recognize
134. Chapter 134 Contaminated Bandaging
135. Chapter 135 Was It My Mom?
136. Chapter 136 Twenty Minutes
137. Chapter 137 When Your World is Falling Apart.
138. Chapter 138 Pals
139. Chapter 139 Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
140. Chapter 140 He Said My Name
141. Chapter 141 What Slipped Through
142. Chapter 142 The Letter He Kept
143. Chapter 143 The Cost of Walking Free
144. Chapter 144 They're Back
145. Chapter 145 Discernment
146. Chapter 146 Another Notification
147. Chapter 147 The Postttt
148. Chapter 148 The Press
149. Chapter 149 Effects of the Surgery
150. Chapter 150 Before She Finds Out
151. Chapter 151 Lost and Alone
152. Chapter 152 The Old Chapel; Joshua.
153. Chapter 153 Targeted
154. Chapter 154 The Line I Won't Cros
155. Chapter 155 Nothing Worth the Wait
156. Chapter 156 The Year My Mother Stopped Singing
157. Chapter 157 Sophia
158. Chapter 158 I HATED HER!
159. Chapter 159 The Girl Who Shouldn’t Have Been There
160. Chapter 160 Sparks
161. Chapter 161 Ignited Sparks
162. Chapter 162 The Thing I Wasn’t Supposed to Feel
163. Chapter 163 The Night Everything Changed
164. Chapter 164 No Ashford vs Reyes
165. Chapter 165 Disvirgined
166. Chapter 166 Goodbyes?
167. Chapter 167 What They Did to Her
168. Chapter 168 The Names on the Letterhead
169. Chapter 169 Shocking Unravellings
170. Chapter 170 Cancer
171. Chapter 171 Love of My Life
172. Chapter 172 "I'm Coming, Sophie."
173. Chapter 173 Sharpened the Blade
174. Chapter 174 The Night the Knife Found Its Target
175. Chapter 175 The Highest Score
176. Chapter 176 The D-Day—Purity Ball
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