Chapter 69 Across the Fire
POV: Eli
I was out of the car before Marcus even put it in park.
"Dude, wait up," he called, jogging to catch me, but I barely heard him. My phone had been dead for an hour thanks to a charger that picked tonight of all nights to die in my cupholder, and the not-knowing had been eating through me ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Eggs I Didn't Ask For
2. Chapter 2 Number One on Her List
3. Chapter 3 The Roof and the Letter
4. Chapter 4 The One Rule He Should Keep
5. Chapter 5 The Note Under the Door
6. Chapter 6 Seven Words
7. Chapter 7 The Version of Him She Wasn't Prepared For
8. Chapter 8 The Kind of Conversation You Don't Plan
9. Chapter 9 The Girl Who Sharpens Her Smile
10. Chapter 10 What You Call It When It Isn't Jealousy
11. Chapter 11 That's Not What I Meant
12. Chapter 12 Everything I Didn't Say
13. Chapter 13 The Lighter Version
14. Chapter 14 The Absence at the Table
15. Chapter 15 Reclaiming the Sky
16. Chapter 16 You Were Right
17. Chapter 17 Nothing She Could Use
18. Chapter 18 The Edges of a Thing
19. Chapter 19 The Thing Where You Go Still
20. Chapter 20 Every Breath
21. Chapter 21 Without a Note
22. Chapter 22 The Worst Kind of Right
23. Chapter 23 The Problem With Being Seen
24. Chapter 24 What Fear Sounds Like
25. Chapter 25 How to Disappear Correctly
26. Chapter 26 The Weight They Don't Mention
27. Chapter 27 When the Quiet Girl Gets Loud
28. Chapter 28 The Ones Worth Threatening
29. Chapter 29 The Loudest Silence
30. Chapter 30 Shedding Season
31. Chapter 31 What Marcus Knows
32. Chapter 32 Everything Under the Surface
33. Chapter 33 The Question Nobody Asked
34. Chapter 34 Things She Only Says to Paper
35. Chapter 35 The One Who Stays
36. Chapter 36 The Way He Says It
37. Chapter 37 The Half-Second
38. Chapter 38 What Real Feels Like
39. Chapter 39 The Small Knife
40. Chapter 40 Before This Summer
41. Chapter 41 The Thing We're Pretending Didn't Happen
42. Chapter 42 The Name I Already Knew
43. Chapter 43 One Question Mark
44. Chapter 44 The Girl In The Yard
45. Chapter 45 But I Think About It Anyway
46. Chapter 46 The Reckoning Clock
47. Chapter 47 What The Headlights Caught
48. Chapter 48 POV: Zara
49. Chapter 49 What Naomi Wasn't Supposed To See
50. Chapter 50 Her Nerve, Her Presumption
51. Chapter 51 You Could Have Told Me
52. Chapter 52 Twenty Minutes Alone With Everything
53. Chapter 53 The Wrong Door
54. Chapter 54 The Door She Couldn't Open
55. Chapter 55 Exactly Who He Is
56. Chapter 56 The Silence That Screamed
57. Chapter 57 Receipts
58. Chapter 58 The Girl Who Knew How to Organize
59. Chapter 59 The Line I Won't Cross
60. Chapter 60 Together or Not at All
61. Chapter 61 A Name I Buried
62. Chapter 62 A Voice That Feels Safe
63. Chapter 63 The File
64. Chapter 64 One Word
65. Chapter 65 The Conversation We Needed
66. Chapter 66 The Dress
67. Chapter 67 A Door Left Open
68. Chapter 68 Standing in the Fire
69. Chapter 69 Across the Fire
70. Chapter 70 Present
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