Chapter 71 The Conversations He Avoids
Peter waited until Clara left for coffee.
He told himself this time it was about not wanting her to hear this particular conversation. But if he is honest, it is about cowardice. Or self-preservation. He is not sure which anymore.
Isaac arrives twenty minutes later with two takeaway cups and a loo...
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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
37. Chapter 37 The First Night Away from Home
38. Chapter 38 Plans Written in Pencil
39. Chapter 39 The Date That Finally Happens
40. Chapter 40 The Love Confession
41. Chapter 41 The Morning After Love
42. Chapter 42 The Author's House
43. Chapter 43 The Rules of Being Told
44. Chapter 44 The First Session
45. Chapter 45 Listening Without Permission
46. Chapter 46 When Protection Interrupts
47. Chapter 47 Peter Asks His Place
48. Chapter 48 The First Omission
49. Chapter 49 The Story On Paper
50. Chapter 50 What He Finally Says
51. Chapter 51 The offer
52. Chapter 52 The Morning of Sightseeing
53. Chapter 53 The Gallery of Meanings
54. Chapter 54 The Story Behind the Painting
55. Chapter 55 The Room That Watched Back
56. Chapter 56 The First Kiss
57. Chapter 57 Hopes Awaken
58. Chapter 58 A Quiet Night
59. Chapter 59 When Love Faced the Morning
60. Chapter 60 When Her Father Spoke
61. Chapter 61 Peter's Truth
62. Chapter 62 The Journey Back
63. Chapter 63 Parables in White Rooms
64. Chapter 64 What Breaks First
65. Chapter 65 Inventory
66. Chapter 66 The Pattern
67. Chapter 67 Voice Notes
68. Chapter 68 A pause, Not a cure
69. Chapter 69 The Quiet Complicity
70. Chapter 70 The Offer
71. Chapter 71 The Conversations He Avoids
72. Chapter 72 Paper Cuts
73. Chapter 73 The Space Between
74. Chapter 74 The Signature
75. Chapter 75 New Damage
76. Chapter 76 The Call
77. Chapter 77 Two Lines
78. Chapter 78 Mother First
79. Chapter 79 He Knows
80. Chapter 80 The Word
81. Chapter 81 Restart
82. Chapter 82 Invisible Signature
83. Chapter 83 Chosen
84. Chapter 84 The Manuscript
85. Chapter 85 Ink
86. Chapter 86 Specimen
87. Chapter 87 Clara Returns Home
88. Chapter 88 Divided
89. Chapter 89 Silent Theft
90. Chapter 90 Pregnancy Checkup
91. Chapter 91 Clara Visits Peter
92. Chapter 92 The Call
93. Chapter 93 The call came three days later
94. Chapter 94 Three Days to the Bell
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