Chapter 105 Words That Stay
They left the hospital in the early afternoon, the sun sat high and sharp and the parking lot smelled of hot road and rain that never came.
Lyra walked a half-step ahead of Cade, her shoulders felt tight. The words she had said to her father still rang in her head like a bell that would not stop.
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Abandoned
2. Chapter 2 Drugged
3. Chapter 3 Not The Boy I Knew
4. Chapter 4 Why Didn't You?
5. Chapter 5 Given Up On Him
6. Chapter 6 Eat With Me
7. Chapter 7 Tell Me The Truth 
8. Chapter 8 In Danger?
9. Chapter 9 Motel
10. Chapter 10 Something Dangerous
11. Chapter 11 Shower
12. Chapter 12 Renzo
13. Chapter 13 Almost Taken
14. Chapter 14 Clubhouse
15. Chapter 15 Quiet
16. Chapter 16 Move
17. Chapter 17 Blood
18. Chapter 18 Frightened
19. Chapter 19 Tell Me
20. Chapter 20 Keep You Safe
21. Chapter 21 Please
22. Chapter 22 After Him
23. Chapter 23 Don't Walk Away From Me
24. Chapter 24 She Rides With Me
25. Chapter 25 What Happens When He Can't?
26. Chapter 26 What Was That?
27. Chapter 27 Silence
28. Chapter 28 Nightmare
29. Chapter 29 Bathroom
30. Chapter 30 Fix It
31. Chapter 31 President
32. Chapter 32 Fall
33. Chapter 33 Prepare Dinner
34. Chapter 34 Nice
35. Chapter 35 Got It
36. Chapter 36 I Know
37. Chapter 37 Learn How To Ride
38. Chapter 38 Air
39. Chapter 39 Zipper
40. Chapter 40 Comfortable?
41. Chapter 41 Torture
42. Chapter 42 Tired
43. Chapter 43 Another Life
44. Chapter 44 From The Past
45. Chapter 45 Sober
46. Chapter 46 Sobered Up
47. Chapter 47 Job
48. Chapter 48 Wrench
49. Chapter 49 Say It
50. Chapter 50 Old Way
51. Chapter 51 Not Okay
52. Chapter 52 One Drink
53. Chapter 53 Kiss
54. Chapter 54 Losing Control
55. Chapter 55 Let Her
56. Chapter 56 Don't Stop Tonight
57. Chapter 57 Let Me Taste You
58. Chapter 58 Morning After
59. Chapter 59 Your Room
60. Chapter 60 Something Changed
61. Chapter 61 Stay
62. Chapter 62 Impromptu
63. Chapter 63 Reassurance
64. Chapter 64 Issues
65. Chapter 65 Careful
66. Chapter 66 What You Know
67. Chapter 67 Park
68. Chapter 68 Petals
69. Chapter 69 You Deserve This
70. Chapter 70 Date With Valentina
71. Chapter 71 Info
72. Chapter 72 Walking Into Danger
73. Chapter 73 Go
74. Chapter 74 We Need To Talk
75. Chapter 75 Not A Problem
76. Chapter 76 Mole?
77. Chapter 77 Tell Me
78. Chapter 78 Handled It
79. Chapter 79 Mother
80. Chapter 80 Home
81. Chapter 81 I Want To See Him
82. Chapter 82 Noticed
83. Chapter 83 What Do You Want?
84. Chapter 84 Why?
85. Chapter 85 Across The Street
86. Chapter 86 Not Scared
87. Chapter 87 I Need You
88. Chapter 88 For This
89. Chapter 89 Questions
90. Chapter 90 Shopping
91. Chapter 91 Another City
92. Chapter 92 I'm Not Ready
93. Chapter 93 He Knows
94. Chapter 94 Come Back
95. Chapter 95 You're Mine
96. Chapter 96 Change Of Approach
97. Chapter 97 Meeting
98. Chapter 98 No
99. Chapter 99 Verified
100. Chapter 100 Tonight
101. Chapter 101 Done
102. Chapter 102 Fight
103. Chapter 103 Don't Hide
104. Chapter 104 Calm
105. Chapter 105 Words That Stay
106. Chapter 106 Old Debts
107. Chapter 107 Over You
108. Chapter 108 You'll Be Okay
109. Chapter 109 R. M
110. Chapter 110 I Can't
111. Chapter 111 Old Badge
112. Chapter 112 Findings
113. Chapter 113 Someone Close
114. Chapter 114 Outsider?
115. Chapter 115 Distrust
116. Chapter 116 Her Offer
117. Chapter 117 Note
118. Chapter 118 Compromised
119. Chapter 119 Blood And Choices
120. Chapter 120 Stay Low
121. Chapter 121 At A Time
122. Chapter 122 Sketchbook
123. Chapter 123 Hold On To Something
124. Chapter 124 His Hands
125. Chapter 125 A Night Away
126. Chapter 126 Calm Morning
127. Chapter 127 Excited
128. Chapter 128 Dinner For Two
129. Chapter 129 The City From Up Here
130. Chapter 130 Thursday
131. Chapter 131 Full Cart
132. Chapter 132 Setting Up
133. Chapter 133 The Night Before
134. Chapter 134 Meal Prep
135. Chapter 135 Let's Go
136. Chapter 136 Party
137. Chapter 137 Get Her Out
138. Chapter 138 Take A Warm Shower
139. Chapter 139 After Midnight
140. Chapter 140 Connected?
141. Chapter 141 Her Answer
142. Chapter 142 Who?
143. Chapter 143 Clean Up
144. Chapter 144 Card
145. Chapter 145 Renzo's News
146. Chapter 146 Dante's Move
147. Chapter 147 Sofia's Confrontation
148. Chapter 148 What She Wanted
149. Chapter 149 Left Unsaid
150. Chapter 150 Four Plates
151. Chapter 151 Deadline
152. Chapter 152 Marco, Finally
153. Chapter 153 Wrong Move
154. Chapter 154 High Ground
155. Chapter 155 The Report
156. Chapter 156 Dog Walker
157. Chapter 157 Following The Trail
158. Chapter 158 First Watch
159. Chapter 159 The Pattern
160. Chapter 160 Lunch, For A Change
161. Chapter 161 What The Warehouse Holds
162. Chapter 162 The Plan
163. Chapter 163 Inside
164. Chapter 164 Four Days
165. Chapter 165 Day One
166. Chapter 166 Day Two
167. Chapter 167 Friday
168. Chapter 168 What's Left Standing
169. Chapter 169 Formal
170. Chapter 170 Without An Agenda
171. Chapter 171 Dante's Offer
172. Chapter 172 Earned
173. Chapter 173 Coming Clean
174. Chapter 174 Less Terrible
175. Chapter 175 Boredom
176. Chapter 176 Watching Her
177. Chapter 177 Not Alone
178. Chapter 178 Signed
179. Chapter 179 Errands
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