Chapter 44 The First Time She Doesn't Pull Back
(Corinne's POV)
My eyes darted around the room, cataloguing every shadow, every closed door, until Marisol grabbed my shoulders and forced me to look at her instead.
"Corinne. What did that message say?"
I showed her, hands shaking, and watched her face pale as she read it twice.
"Someone I trus...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Door That Was Never Left Open
2. Chapter 2 The Voice That Wasn't There
3. Chapter 3 The Question I Couldn't Answer
4. Chapter 4 The Drawer That Wasn't Locked Before
5. Chapter 5 The Boy Whose Name Made Rooms Go Quiet
6. Chapter 6 The Car With No Lights 
7. Chapter 7 Telling Marisol
8. Chapter 8 Through the Gate
9. Chapter 9 One Condition
10. Chapter 10 What Was Inside
11. Chapter 11 Numbers That Don't Lie
12. Chapter 12 Stay Close
13. Chapter 13 The Detective
14. Chapter 14 A Bad Feeling
15. Chapter 15 The First Quiet Evening
16. Chapter 16 Fenwick Introduces Himself
17. Chapter 17 A Test
18. Chapter 18 A Match in the Numbers
19. Chapter 19 Someone Was Here
20. Chapter 20 Reported and Dismissed
21. Chapter 21 A Shadow Now Follows Her
22. Chapter 22 Half a Truth
23. Chapter 23 What He Won't Deny
24. Chapter 24 Interrupted
25. Chapter 25 The Man by the School
26. Chapter 26 No One Recognizes Him
27. Chapter 27 Ten Years of Skimming
28. Chapter 28 A Small Piece of Trust
29. Chapter 29 The Boy Before the Heir
30. Chapter 30 Stopped Wanting Him Guilty
31. Chapter 31 Planted Evidence
32. Chapter 32 Jealousy, Not Menace
33. Chapter 33 Reyes Wants More
34. Chapter 34 Too Close This Time
35. Chapter 35 Who She Calls First
36. Chapter 36 Fast and Real
37. Chapter 37 Marisol Says It Plainly
38. Chapter 38 The Glove Box
39. Chapter 39 A Second Blackmail
40. Chapter 40 Wrong Direction
41. Chapter 41 Priscilla's Secret File
42. Chapter 42 Someone With Everything and No Suspicion
43. Chapter 43 A Name She Won't Let Herself Think
44. Chapter 44 The First Time She Doesn't Pull Back
45. Chapter 45 Off the Road
46. Chapter 46 Shaken
47. Chapter 47 A Detail Only He Knew
48. Chapter 48 A Small, Cold Flag
49. Chapter 49 Trusting the System
50. Chapter 50 Framed
51. Chapter 51 Corinne Speaks Up
52. Chapter 52 Quiet Thanks
53. Chapter 53 A Timeline That Doesn't Match
54. Chapter 54 Digging Quietly
55. Chapter 55 An Old Scandal
56. Chapter 56 Careful Now
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