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Chapters
Chapter 1: The One Who Never Left
Chapter 2: The One Who Stayed
Chapter 3: The Morning After
Chapter 4: The Echo of Him
Chapter 5: The Chain Between Us
Chapter 6: Unanswered, Unspoken
Chapter 7: Coming for Her!
Chapter 8- Her Undoing
Chapter 9 - Aftermath
Chapter 10- Walking Away
Chapter 11 - Her Scent
Chapter 12: A Confrontation
Chapter 13: Done Playing the Fool
Chapter 14 - The Bathroom Power Play
Chapter 15 - The Aftermath of Violence
Chapter 16 - The Breaking Point
Chapter 17 - Post-Sex Power Struggle
Chapter 18 - His Descent Into Obsession
Chapter 19 - Hard Truths
Chapter 20 - Running Away
Chapter 21 - Silence
Chapter 22 - He’s Gone
Chapter 23 - It Will Never Be Over
Chapter 24 - First Contact
Chapter 25 - The Wedding will Go On!
Chapter 26 - Fly to Her
Chapter 27 - What He does Best
Chapter 28 - Paranoia
Chapter 29 - His Descent
Chapter 30- The Alley Encounter
Chapter 31: The Moment He Walked Away
Chapter 32: The Wedding Day Confession
Chapter 33: The Wedding That Wasn't
Chapter 34: The Wedding Afterparty
Chapter 35: The Return Home
Chapter 36: The Return And The Mission
Chapter 37: The Infiltration
Chapter 38: The Mistake He Didn't Mean
Chapter 39: The Offer She Couldn't Ignore
Chapter 40: DC Arrival
Chapter 41: Seeing Nat Again
Chapter 42: Case Briefing
Chapter 43: Nat Arrival
Chapter 44: Cornered
Chapter 45: The Bar
Chapter 46 - The Collision
Chapter 47- The Night She Didn't Plan For
Chapter 48 - The Morning After
Chapter 49 - The Team Meeting
Chapter 50- The Flight to L.A.
Chapter 51 – The L.A. Move-In
Chapter 52- Two Days In
Chapter 53 - The New Household Dynamic
Chapter 54 - Lara’s Plan: Poking the Bear
Chapter 55 - The Breaking Point
Chapter 56 - The Breaking Point Deepens
Chapter 57 - The Restaurant Breakdown
Chapter 59 - The Calm Before the Storm
Chapter 60 - The Threat Unfolds
Chapter 61 - The Safehouse Confrontation
Chapter 62 - The Safehouse Confession 2
Chapter 63 - The Kidnapping
Chapter 64 - The War Begins
Chapter 65 - The Hunt for Nat
Chapter 66 - Captive and Exposed
Chapter 67 - Nat’s Reckoning
Chapter 68 - The Fire That Burns to The Aftermath
Chapter 69 - Caught
Chapter 70 - The Hotel Escape to The Fear That Remains
Chapter 71 - Gift of Vengeance to The Aftermath
Chapter 72 - Falling Apart
Chapter 73- Giving in
Chapte 74– Domestic Bliss
Chapter 75 – Spa Day & First Date
Chapter 76 – Griffith Park & Marina
Chapter 77 - Building Something Real
Chapter 78 – The Cartel Case Resumes
Chapter 79- What Has Ginger Been Up To?
Chapter 80 The Kitchen Confrontation
Chapter 81- A whiskey Half Full
Chapter 83- A rude awakening
Chapter 84- Dad Comes for a Visit
Chapter 85- Late
Chapter 86- A Ginger’s Retreat
Chapter 87- My Childhood Prison
Chapter 88- A Massive Loss
Chapter 89- Heart to Heart
Chapter 90- Prove It
Chapter 91- Who Says You Can't Go Home
Chapter 92- Whore
Chapter 93- Midwestern Wedding??
Chapter 94- Father of the Bride
Chapter 95- Stolen Bride
Chapter 96- The Bride Fights Back
Chapter 97 - Dream Wedding
Chapter 98- Wedding Night
Chapter 99- Vegas is Always a Good Idea
Chapter 100- A Night to Remember
Chapter 101 - The Hot Tub - Use the Blonde
Chapter 102- We Survived Our Wedding Night
Chapter 103 - Reality?
Chapter 104 - A New Kind of War
Chapter 105 - The Devil's Truce
Chapter 106 - Back to Work
Chapter 107 - Into the Field
Chapter 108 - The Kiss Heard Around the World
Chapter 109 - Cold War
Chapter 110 - Handling Nat
Chapter 111 - The Task Force and the Kiss
Chapter 112 - A Mother’s Visit
Chapter 113 - The Pregnancy Test Fiasco
Chapter 114 - Grandma’s Moving In
Chapter 115 - Unfinished Business
Chapter 116 - First Glimpse
Chapter 117 - A New Life
Chapter 118 - Coming Home
Chapter 119 - Silent Gestures
Chapter 120 - Conversations on Motherhood
Chapter 121 - Gone Without a Trace
Chapter 122 - The Desert Betrayal
Chapter 123 - Roman's Web
Chapter 124 - Nat's Defiance
Chapter 125 - Born in the Desert
Chapter 126 - Desert Dawn
Chapter 127 - Welcome Home
Chapter 128 - Balancing Acts
Chapter 129 - Boys’ Night and Buried Truths
Chapter 130 - Confrontation Behind Bars
Chapter 131 - Vacation?
Chapter 133 - A Familiar Face
Chapter 134 - Between Friends
Chapter 135 - No Turning Back
Chapter 136 - Morning After
Chapter 137 - Debrief
Chapter 138 - Confrontation
Chapter 139 - Clearing the Air
Chapter 140 - After the Dust Settles
Chapter 141 - Crossing the Line
Chapter 142 - No Turning Back
Chapter 143 - Breaking Point
Chapter 144 - After the Storm
Chapter 145 - Uncharted Territory
Chapter 146 - The Disappearance
Chapter 147 - The Rescue
Chapter 148 - Twisted Realizations
Chapter 149 - The Breaking Point
Chapter 150 - Boundaries Shattered
Chapter 151 - The Morning After
Chapter 152 - Between Us
Chapter 153 - Sun, Sand, and Something More
Chapter 154 - Back to Reality
Chapter 155 - Rebuilding Us
Chapter 156: Slipping Through Fingers
Chapter 157: Breaking Point
Chapter 158: Into the Lion’s Den
Chapter 159: No Other Way
Chapter 160: Aftermath
Chapter 161: The Cage
Chapter 162: The Hunt
Chapter 163- The Long Game
Chapter 164: The Cost of Survival
Chapter 165: The Morning After
Chapter 166: A Show of Devotion
Chapter 167: Behind Closed Doors
Chapter 168: Unspoken Tensions
Chapter 169: Fractured Lines
Chapter 170: The Edge of Control
Chapter 171: Bound and Unraveled
Chapter 172: The Return
Chapter 173: Signed and Sealed
Chapter 174: A Step Behind
Chapter 175: The Breaking Point
Chapter 176: The Quiet Between Us
Chapter 177: The Ghost of Who I Was
Chapter 178: Slipping Away
Chapter 179: The Calm Before the Storm
Chapter 180: The Siege
Chapter 182: Hollow
Chapter 183: Silence and Shadows
Chapter 184: The First Words
Chapter 185: Letting Go
Chapter 186: Echoes of the Past
Chapter 187: Ghosts of the Past
Chapter 188: One Last Time
Chapter 189: The Last Night
Chapter 190: The Morning After
Chapter 191: A Quiet Existence
Chapter 192: Letting Go
Chapter 193: Ghosts of the Living
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Chapter 20 - Running Away
His POV – Drowning in Work, Trying to Forget
I didn’t leave the city.
Didn’t disappear.
Didn’t run.
Because running meant admitting I was weak.
And I couldn’t be weak.
Not now.
Not after what I’d done to her.
So I did the only thing I knew how to do.
I shut everything out.
I buried mys...
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