Chapter Thirteen — The Art of Pretending
Eva made it a full forty-eight hours without saying Noah’s name.
She didn’t cry.
She didn’t mention what she saw.
Not to Claire, not to Rachel.
Not even to herself.
Instead, she folded into routine—early mornings, emails, fabric orders, site visits, espresso shots until her hands shook.
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Chapters
1. Chapter one:Eva
2. Chapter Two: Still Here
3. Chapter Three:Noah
4. Chapter four:The weight of coming back
5. Chapter Five: The Things We Carry
6. Chapter Six: Starting Over
7. Chapter Seven: Cracks in the Frame
8. Chapter Eight— The Calm Before the Shift
9. Chapter Nine— The Weight of First Impressions
10. Chapter Ten— The Bottom of the Glass
11. Chapter Eleven:sharp Edges and Soft Lies
12. Chapter Twelve — What’s Left After the Noise
13. Chapter Thirteen — The Art of Pretending
14. Chapter 14 — Before the Fall
15. Chapter 15 — Distraction Fails Quietly
16. Chapter 16 — Fault Lines
17. Chapter 17 — All the Things Left Unsaid
18. Chapter 18 — A Quiet Kind of War
19. Chapter 19 — What’s Left Between Brothers
20. Chapter 20 — If You Say It Out Loud
21. Chapter 21 — The Weight of a Smile
22. Chapter 22 — The Morning After
23. Chapter 23 — Luke
24. Chapter 24 — Luke
25. Chapter 25 -sweet times
26. Chapter 26 — The Morning After
27. Chapter 27-shift in the dark
28. Chapter 28 — Fault Lines
29. Chapter 29 — Out of the Fog
30. Chapter 30
31. Rva
32. Chapter 32 That time
33. Chapter 33-moment
34. Chapter 34– Between the Rain and the Fire
35. Chapter 35 – The Truth That Changes Everything
36. Chapter 36 – The Ghost at the Door
37. Chapter 37 – Closer to the Flame
38. Chapter 38 – Shadows at the Edge
39. Chapter 39 – Edges We Can’t Cross
40. Chapter 40 – Fault Lines
41. Chapter 41 – Breach
42. Chapter 42 – Nowhere and Everywhere
43. Chapter 43 – Lines We Can’t Uncross
44. Chapter 44 – The Weight of the Storm
45. Chapter 45 – A Line They Can’t Uncross
46. Chapter 46 – The Longest Night
47. Chapter 47 — Fractures and Flames
48. Chapter 48 — The Edge Burns Away
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