Chapter 166 Goodbyes?

(Graduation Day)

The auditorium was too bright.

Rows of folding chairs filled with parents and siblings and teachers who had watched us grow up in pieces. The air smelled like floor polish and expensive perfume and the faint nervous sweat of three hundred seniors in rented robes.

I sat on t...

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