Chapter 12: The business trip
"We’re going to New York tomorrow. A few meetings, a fundraiser, nothing too major,” Caspian said.
I blinked at him, fork halted in midair. “We?”
He didn’t even flinch, still calm and authoritative. “Yeah, we. This whole arrangement needs to be continuous. You’re coming along.”
I let the fork sit bu...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The collision
2. Chapter 2: The deal
3. Chapter 3: The rules
4. Chapter 4: The first public appearance
5. Chapter 5: Crack in the ice
6. Chapter 6: A night of pretending
7. Chapter 7: The storm behind his eyes
8. Chapter 8: When the world watches
9. Chapter 9: A seemingly meaningless kiss
10. Chapter 10: The breaking point
11. Chapter 11: A glimpse of the past
12. Chapter 12: The business trip
13. Chapter 13: When lines are crossed
14. Chapter 14: The past comes knocking 
15. Chapter 15: The breaking silence
16. Chapter 16: The edge of control 
17. Chapter 17: A risk worth taking 
18. Chapter 18: Ghosts of grey manor 
19. Chapter 19: Close enough to hurt
20. Chapter 20: Unraveling the truth
21. Chapter 21: A public betrayal 
22. Chapter 22: Lines that can't be redrawn 
23. Chapter 23: A shadow from the past
24. Chapter 24: The attack
25. Chapter 25: A promise made
26. Chapter 26: A world between us
27. Chapter 27: The burning touch 
28. Chapter 28: His world, his rules 
29. Chapter 29: Unspoken confessions 
30. Chapter 30: Heartache
31. Chapter 31: A dance in the dark
32. Chapter 32: The edge of the abyss 
33. Chapter 33: A dark night
34. Chapter 34: Splinters of dawn
35. Chapter 35: After the fall
36. Chapter 36: The cracks beneath us
37. Chapter 37: The fragile hours 
38. Chapter 38: Fractures in the light 
39. Chapter 39: Buried emotions 
40. Chapter 40: Gentle rain 
41. Chapter 41: Fragile ground
42. Chapter 42: Slipping through fingers 
43. Chapter 43: The calm before the storm 
44. Chapter 44: A reluctant escape 
45. Chapter 45: The weight of normal 
46. Chapter 46: Back into the light
47. Chapter 47: The ripple effect 
48. Chapter 48: Cracks in the foundation 
49. Chapter 49: The shadow in the crowd 
50. Chapter 50: The devil you know
51. Chapter 51: A dark past
52. Chapter 47: The eve of the storm
53. Chapter 52: Intertwined fates
54. Chapter 54: The warning 
55. Chapter 55: Doubts
56. Chapter 56: A necessary information 
57. Chapter 57: A possible future 
58. Chapter 58: Tiny fractures
59. Chapter 59: Fear or hope
60. Chapter 60: The storm arrives 
61. Chapter 61: Together
62. Chapter 62: The plan
63. Chapter 63: The hunter and the hunted
64. Chapter 64: Shadows and smoke 
65. Chapter 65: Flight
66. Chapter 66: Breaking point
67. Chapter 67: The invitation 
68. Chapter 68: The final confrontation 
69. Chapter 69: The fall of the phantom
70. Chapter 70: Climax
71. Chapter 71: A new dawn
72. Chapter 72: Beacon
73. Chapter 73: Learning how to breathe again 
74. Chapter 74: Happiness
75. Chapter 75: A love that stays
76. Chapter 76: The weight of forever 
77. Chapter 77: Unquestionable love
78. Chapter 78: It begins 
79. Chapter 79: Tranquility 
80. Chapter 80: Joyful bliss
81. Chapter 81: Sunrise
82. Chapter 82: Temptations from the past
83. Chapter 83: Doubts 
84. Chapter 84: Shadows at the door
85. Chapter 85: The garden
86. Chapter 86: The cracks he tried to widen
87. Chapter 87: Heartache 
88. Chapter 88: Tough love 
89. Chapter 89: Mine to lose
90. Chapter 90: Whispered insecurities 
91. Chapter 91: Distant hearts 
92. Chapter 92: Weird dinner 
93. Chapter 93: My biggest fear 
94. Chapter 94: The question in the moonlight 
95. Chapter 95: Will you marry me? 
96. Chapter 96: A fragile bond 
97. Chapter 97: Fragile expectations 
98. Chapter 98: Broken calm
99. Chapter 99: Silent confessions
100. Chapter 100: Echoes of comfort
101. Chapter 101: Frayed promises 
102. Chapter 102: Twilight of crossroads 
103. Chapter 103: Weighing the heart 
104. Chapter 104: Another escape 
105. Chapter 105: Whispers in masquerade 
106. Chapter 106: Eyes in the dark 
107. Chapter 107: Unspoken fears 
108. Chapter 108: Underneath 
109. Chapter 109: Under the surface 
110. Chapter 110: Whispers through glass 
111. Chapter 113: Changing shadows 
112. Chapter 112: The unseen guest 
113. Chapter 113: Echoes in the dark 
114. Chapter 114: The third shadow 
115. Chapter 115: The forgotten letters 
116. Chapter 116: The masquerade returns
117. Chapter 117: The whisper in the crowd 
118. Chapter 118: The broken mask 
119. Chapter 119: The hidden witness 
120. Chapter 120: The reflection speaks 
121. Chapter 121: The trap set 
122. Chapter 122: Glass houses 
123. Chapter 123: Evelyn’s silence 
124. Chapter 124: The burned letter 
125. Chapter 125: The locked drawer
126. Chapter 126: The number you blocked 
127. Chapter 127: The edge of patience 
128. Chapter 128: Ghosts between us
129. Chapter 129: Breathing room
130. Chapter 130: The quiet between us 
131. Chapter 131: Threadbare trust
132. Chapter 132: Rain on the glass 
133. Chapter 133: What remains unsaid
134. Chapter 134: Safe enough
135. Chapter 135: The shape of silence 
136. Chapter 136: One breath apart 
137. Chapter 137: The mirror room 
138. Chapter 138: Glass edges
139. Chapter 139: The quiet things 
140. Chapter 140: The way he watches her 
141. Chapter 141: Language of flowers 
142. Chapter 142: Dinner under the stars
143. Chapter 143: Morning in gold
144. Chapter 144: The shape of stillness 
145. Chapter 145: Morning light 
146. Chapter 146: Silence between the waves 
147. Chapter 147: After the tide 
148. Chapter 148: Tranquility 
149. Chapter 149: The ghost in her inbox 
150. Chapter 150: Post storm 
151. Chapter 151: Morning, still
152. Chapter 152: Quiet shoreline 
153. Chapter 153: Red lipstick and rain 
154. Chapter 154: Post rain 
155. Chapter 155: A piano in the dark 
156. Chapter 156: The stillness after 
157. Chapter 157: Lines that shouldn’t be crossed 
158. Chapter 158: The soft armor of ordinary 
159. Chapter 159: The warmth we return to 
160. Chapter 160: Safe to say no
161. Chapter 161: A kind of stillness
162. Chapter 162: The confrontation plan
163. Chapter 163: Aftermath 
164. Chapter 164: Pure bliss
165. Chapter 165: The picnic in the park 
166. Chapter 166: The woman at the gallery 
167. Chapter 167: The quiet dawn and lavender scent 
168. Chapter 168: The ache that refused to depart 
169. Chapter 169: Quiet desperation
170. Chapter 170: One more day
171. Chapter 171: The waiting room
172. Chapter 172: This kind of joy 
173. Chapter 173: Becoming real
174. Chapter 174: Telling no one (Yet)
175. Chapter 175: Through her eyes
176. Chapter 176: The first picture 
177. Chapter 177: All the way he loves her 
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