Chapter 41 Jessie - chance encounter
Jessie made rules before she made plans.
The rules came first because they kept her steady.
Because they reminded her that recovery wasn’t a freefall—it was structure, intention, and choice.
They were not punishments.
They were protections.
She wrote them in the front of her journal, neat and d...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Alley
2. Chapter 2 The Bravata boss searching
3. Chapter 3 Hunting her
4. Chapter 4 The meeting
5. Chapter 5 Marked
6. Chapter 6 Warning
7. Chapter 7 Unexpected visitor
8. Chapter 8 The lines that blur
9. Chapter 9 Closer
10. Chapter 10 Unwelcome guests
11. Chapter 11 Complications
12. Chapter 12 Protection
13. Chapter 13 Guarding
14. Chapter 14 Shadows more when you're not looking
15. Chapter 15 Something breaks open
16. Chapter 16 The terms of surrender
17. Chapter 17 A broken promise
18. Chapter 18 Fire and blood
19. Chapter 19 The Hunt Begins
20. Chapter 20 First strike
21. Chapter 21 The showdown
22. Chapter 22 After the fight
23. Chapter 23 Wounds and Promises
24. Chapter 24 Shadows that don't die easily
25. Chapter 25 Hunting the traitor
26. Chapter 26 The aftermath and the enemy in the dark
27. Chapter 27 Morning light and hard truths
28. Chapter 28 When the enemy knocks
29. Chapter 29 Becoming the bait
30. Chapter 30 Leverage
31. Chapter 31 Pressure points
32. Chapter 32 The Bellini Estate
33. Chapter 33 What remains
34. Chapter 34 The name that never left
35. Chapter 35 Jessie
36. Chapter 36 Lucas pov
37. Chapter 37 Lucy pov
38. Chapter 38 Jessie's Day in court
39. Chapter 39 Jessie - Learning the Shape of Days
40. Chapter 40 JESSIE - The first girl
41. Chapter 41 Jessie - chance encounter
42. Chapter 42 Jessie - Triggers aren't failures
43. Chapter 43 Jessie - The man who waits
44. Chapter 44 Jessie - Learning not to disappear
45. Chapter 45 Jessie - When helping hurts
46. Chapter 46 Jessie - A Body remembers
47. Chapter 47 Daniel - What he sees
48. Chapter 48 Jessie and Lucy talk
49. Chapter 49 Dinner
50. Chapter 50 Feeling
51. Chapter 51 Doubts
52. Chapter 52 Rest
53. Chapter 53 Love without debt
54. Chapter 54 Saying no
55. Chapter 55 Standing in the spotlight
56. Chapter 56 Being loved
57. Chapter 57 Kiss
58. Chapter 58 What she builds
59. Chapter 59 Epliogue
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