Chapter 20 The First Cold Truce
Margot's POV
I ran back to the porch on instinct, checking the street, the parked cars, every dark window across from my father's house, my heart slamming so hard I could feel it in my teeth.
Nothing. No one. Whoever had taken that photograph was long gone, and the empty street offered nothing bac...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Sound That Wasn't There
2. Chapter 2 A Debt With My Name On It
3. Chapter 3 The Girl From the River
4. Chapter 4 A Man in the Driveway
5. Chapter 5 The Name on Page Four
6. Chapter 6 The Second Name
7. Chapter 7 What the Clause Really Does
8. Chapter 8 Sign Anyway
9. Chapter 9 Moving Day
10. Chapter 10 The Room at the End of the Hall
11. Chapter 11 First Dinner as Husband and Wife
12. Chapter 12 Imogen's Welcome
13. Chapter 13 Percy Duarte
14. Chapter 14 The Board Gala
15. Chapter 15 The Empty Seat Beside Her
16. Chapter 16 Sabine, the Sympathetic Star
17. Chapter 17 Back to Work
18. Chapter 18 The Pattern
19. Chapter 19 A Warning from Roland
20. Chapter 20 The First Cold Truce
21. Chapter 21 Sabine's Secret Sessions
22. Chapter 22 A Question Sabine Won't Answer
23. Chapter 23 The Wrong File
24. Chapter 24 Reading It Twice
25. Chapter 25 Who Do I Even Tell?
26. Chapter 26 Percy's Nerves
27. Chapter 27 Imogen Gets Colder
28. Chapter 28 Cut Off From the File Room
29. Chapter 29 Late Nights, Same Table
30. Chapter 30 Two People, One Puzzle
31. Chapter 31 A Question He Doesn't Expect
32. Chapter 32 The Storm Warning
33. Chapter 33 Trapped Together
34. Chapter 34 What the Dark Makes Easy to Say
35. Chapter 35 The Balcony
36. Chapter 36 Almost
37. Chapter 37 Percy Comes Through
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