Chapter 23: Ghosts and Closed Doors

Vivian's POV

I made it home in twenty-two minutes flat. I didn't remember driving.

I locked the bedroom door, sat down on the floor with my back against it, and stayed there.

My hands wouldn't stop shaking.

I pressed them flat against my knees and stared at the opposite wall and tried to breat...

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Chapters

1. Chapter 1: The Impossible Return

2. Chapter 2: When the Past Becomes Doubt

3. Chapter 3: The Weight of Fourteen Years

4. Chapter 4: Alex

5. Chapter 5: The First Lesson

6. Chapter 6: Uninvited Guest and a Declaration of War

7. Chapter 7: The DNA Report and the Weight of Memory

8. Chapter 8: Digital Ghosts

9. Chapter 9: When a Ghost Goes Online

10. Chapter 10: You're Still You

11. Chapter 11: First Contact

12. Chapter 12: The Precinct

13. Chapter 13: The Standoff

14. Chapter 14: Desperate Alliances

15. Chapter 15: Jealous

16. Chapter 16: The World She Left Behind

17. Chapter 17: The Ghost at the Hartley Gala

18. Chapter 18: When the Son Says "Mom"

19. Chapter 19: The Perfect Stepmother's Trap

20. Chapter 20: Mother and Daughter

21. Chapter 21: What You Stopped Doing

22. Chapter 22: Moonlight Confessions

23. Chapter 23: Ghosts and Closed Doors

24. Chapter 24: Lunch with Mom and a Test of Truth

25. Chapter 25: Little Schemes in High Places

26. Chapter 26: The Two Faces of Richard Winston

27. Chapter 27: But Mom—

28. Chapter 28: The Aftermath of the Storm

29. Chapter 29: What I Dug Up

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