Chapter 92: Terms and Conditions
The boardroom smelled faintly of cedar and something colder — power, maybe.
Or nerves. Possibly mine.
I’d spent the morning rehearsing my composure — not my words, not my ideas, just my calm. That was Leah’s advice. “They don’t have to like you,” she’d said while straightening my collar. “They just...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Bad News
2. Chapter 2: War Declared
3. Chapter 3: Lines in the Sand
4. Chapter 4: Stalemate, or So It Seems
5. Chapter 5: The Price of Coffee
6. Chapter 6: After Hours
7. Chapter 7: Morning, Again
8. Chapter 8: Tangled Wires
9. Chapter 9: The Meeting
10. Chapter 10: The Noise Between Us
11. Chapter 11: Alex Carver
12. Chapter 12: Through the Storm
13. Chapter 13: The Warning
14. Chapter 14: The Pull
15. Chapter 15: The Visit
16. Chapter 16: What Lingers
17. Chapter 17: Quiet Gravity (Alex’s POV)
18. Chapter 18: What the Quiet Keeps
19. Chapter 19: The Door
20. Chapter 20: The Pull
21. Chapter 21: Blurred Lines
22. Chapter 22: The Line We Crossed
23. Chapter 23: Aftermath
24. Chapter 24: Fractures
25. Chapter 25: Rumors
26. Chapter 26: Aftershock
27. Chapter 27: The Statement
28. Chapter 28: Shadows on the Glass
29. Chapter 29: The Late Call
30. Chapter 30:Julian's Offer
31. Chapter 31: A Face In the Crowd
32. Chapter 32: The Freeze
33. Chapter 33: The Noise Outside
34. Chapter 34: Lawyers and Leverage
35. Chapter 35: City Rumors
36. Chapter 36: Storm Meeting
37. Chapter 37: Morning After
38. Chapter 38: Julian's Warning
39. Chapter 39: The Photo
40. Chapter 40: The Cafe Mob
41. Chapter 41: Alex's Silence
42. Chapter 42: Echoes Abroad
43. Chapter 43: Coffee, Cold
44. Chapter 44: Return Flight
45. Chapter 45: The Turning Point
46. Chapter 46: The Firebreak
47. Chapter 47: The Letter
48. Chapter 48: Ink and Silence
49. Chapter 49: Leah's Counsel
50. Chapter 50: Rebuild
51. Chapter 51: Letters Unsent
52. Chapter 52: Julian Again
53. Chapter 53: Closure Dinner
54. Chapter 54: Alex's Fall
55. Chapter 55: Tension Rekindled
56. Chapter 56: The Return
57. Chapter 57: Leah's Insight
58. Chapter 58: Quiet Distance
59. Chapter 59: The Press Conference
60. Chapter 60: A Night Alone
61. Chapter 61: The Dance
62. Chapter 62: Rain Again
63. Chapter 63: Rumours Return
64. Chapter 64: The Test
65. Chapter 65: Julian Leaves
66. Chapter 66: Reconnection
67. Chapter 67: The Offer
68. Chapter 68: The Yes
69. Chapter 69: First Plans
70. Chapter 70: Sweet Sensation
71. Chapter 71: Press Shadow
72. Chapter 72: Quiet Mornings
73. Chapter 73: The Unsaid
74. Chapter 74: Building Dreams (Part1)
75. Chapter 75: Building Dreams (Part 2)
76. Chapter 76: Old Enemies
77. Chapter 77: Broken Silence
78. Chapter 78: No Drama
79. Chapter 79: What It Meant
80. Chapter 80: The First Opening
81. Chapter 81: Relapse
82. Chapter 82: The Rift (Part 1)
83. Chapter 83: The Rift (Part 2)
84. Chapter 84: The Absence
85. Chapter 85: The Reckoning
86. Chapter 86: Echoes
87. Chapter 87: Redemption (Static)
88. Chapter 88: Redemption (the trail)
89. Chapter 89: The Clearing
90. Chapter 90: Homecoming
91. Chapter 91: The Invitation
92. Chapter 92: Terms and Conditions
93. Chapter 93: Business and Balance
94. Chapter 94: The Learning Curve
95. Chapter 95: Under the Same Roof
96. Chapter 96: Public Faces
97. Chapter 97: Quiet Battles
98. Chapter 98: The Pivot
99. Chapter 99: Equilibrium
100. Chapter 100: The Promise
101. Chapter 101: Quiet Tensions
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