Chapter 20 When Hope is Denied
Clara didn’t cry right away.
The doctors’ words, you’re too sick settled into her slowly, like dust after a collapse. Heavy. Suffocating. Inescapable. She sat there, shoulders drawn inward, hands folded in her lap as if she were trying to make herself smaller, easier to manage, easier to protect.
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Where Dreams Meet Reality
2. Chapter 2 The Room Where Everyone Knows
3. Chapter 3 The Moment That Changed the Air
4. Chapter 4 On the Fear of Being Forgotten
5. Chapter 5 Where we were Headed
6. Chapter 6 The Space Between Pages
7. Chapter 7 The email arrived like a quiet miracle.
8. Chapter 8 Where Hope Feels Heavy
9. Chapter 9 Evening That Almost Stayed
10. Chapter 10 What Lingers After Goodbye
11. Chapter 11 The Words That Change Everything
12. Chapter 12 Hope is a Dangerous Thing 
13. Chapter 13 The Question That Matters
14. Chapter 14 A Mother's Fear
15. Chapter 15 The Night Breath Was Stolen
16. Chapter 16 The Good News That Still Hurts
17. Chapter 17 Peter at the Door
18. Chapter 18 Phalanxifor
19. Chapter 19 The Question Repeated
20. Chapter 20 When Hope is Denied
21. Chapter 21 The News She Hated Giving
22. Chapter 22 Staying
23. Chapter 23 The Distance Between Breath
24. Chapter 24 Conversations Behind Closed Doors
25. Chapter 25 The Word Not Yet Spoken
26. Chapter 26 Discharge Day
27. Chapter 27 Just Friends for Now
28. Chapter 28 The Night Between Decisions
29. Chapter 29 The Email
30. Chapter 30 Three Days Only
31. Chapter 31 Everything's Coming Up, Clara
32. Chapter 32 Travel Day
33. Chapter 33 Above the Fear
34. Chapter 34 Between Clouds and Confessions
35. Chapter 35 A City That Breathes
36. Chapter 36 The Apartment of Temporary Forever
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