Chapter 17 The Color of Her Mother
The backyard smelled of wet earth and leaves beginning to rot at the end of their season.
Evelyn stood in the middle of the yard, facing Matilda who had been there since before she arrived. Arms folded. Eyes reading something that hadn't finished being written yet.
"Close your eyes," Matilda said....
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Last Night
2. Chapter 2 Nightmare
3. Chapter 3 Shadows Behind the Fog
4. Chapter 4 Don't Call Me Hima
5. Chapter 5 Destined Meeting
6. Chapter 6 Noctalab
7. Chapter 7 Between Pact and Warning 
8. Chapter 8 A house without a trace
9. Chapter 9 Pactume Vitae: The Dawn of Ruin?
10. Chapter 10 Portrait of the Past
11. Chapter 11 Their second encounter
12. Chapter 12 Before the Truth Unfolds
13. Chapter 13 Thalen Was Never Truly Safe
14. Chapter 14 You Don't Even Know What You Are
15. Chapter 15 What Tony Knew
16. Chapter 16 The Name She Still Carries
17. Chapter 17 The Color of Her Mother
18. Chapter 18 Information With A Price
19. Chapter 19 The Smile He Kept
20. Chapter 20 The Face In The Frame
21. Chapter 21 Eight Words Too Many
22. Chapter 22 The Distance She Built
23. Chapter 23 Before The Morning Knows
24. Chapter 24 A Breath Apart
25. Chapter 25 The Nose That Never Forgets
26. Chapter 26 What Neither Of Them Said
27. Chapter 27 The Man Who Already Knew
28. Chapter 28 Where He Actually Belongs
29. Chapter 29 What Lives Beneath
30. Chapter 30 The Argument That Feels Like Home
31. Chapter 31 Polite As A Knife
32. Chapter 32 Hidden Beneath The Fabric
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