Chapter 21 Controlled Distance
Chapter Twenty-One: Controlled Distance
The first “rule” meeting happened on a Thursday evening.
I didn’t like calling it that, but there wasn’t a better word.
It felt like a courtroom had been moved into a living room.
My mother sat beside me on one side of the sofa.
Across from us were Mrs. ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Five-Second Rule Chapter
2. Chapter 2 The Blue Hoodie
3. Chapter 3 The Birthday Surprise
4. Chapter 4 The Line We Crossed
5. Chapter 5 Damage Control
6. Chapter 6 The Right Choice 
7. Chapter 7 Losing Ground
8. Chapter 8 Cracks in the surface
9. Chapter 9 Untitled Chapter
10. Chapter 10 The Space Between Choices
11. Chapter 11 Lines You Don’t See
12. Chapter 12 Uninvited
13. Chapter 13 Safe Choices
14. Chapter 14 What He Can’t Ignore
15. Chapter 15 Red Dress, Wrong Night
16. Chapter 16 Public Damage
17. Chapter 17 Fallout
18. Chapter 18 What Everyone Says
19. Chapter 19 Ten Minutes
20. Chapter 20 Conditions
21. Chapter 21 Controlled Distance
22. Chapter 22 The Space Between
23. Chapter 23 Breaking Point
24. Chapter 24 The Line We Keep Crossing
25. Chapter 25 When Silence Speaks
26. Chapter 26 Fractures
27. Chapter 27 The Almost
28. Chapter 28 Cracks in the Glass
29. Chapter 29 When Things Start to Slip
30. Chapter 30 The Tightening
31. Chapter 31 What Distance Cannot Fix
32. Chapter 32 The Move Day
33. Chapter 33 New Address
34. Chapter 34 Liam Alone
35. Chapter 35 Familiar Strangers
36. Chapter 36 Crossed Lines
37. Chapter 37 Things Chloe Notices
38. Chapter 38 Probation Rules
39. Chapter 39 Rumors Have Teeth
40. Chapter 40 Cracks in the Glass
41. Chapter 41 No More Waiting
42. Chapter 42 Terms and Conditions
43. Chapter 43 Open the Door
44. Chapter 44 Mother Tongue
45. Chapter 45 The Meeting
46. Chapter 46 Public Places
47. Chapter 47 Fault Lines
48. Chapter 48 Exposure
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