Chapter 82 Smoke, Mirrors, and Old Ghosts
The club was everything I’d forgotten I missed.
Lights sliced through the darkness in slow, lazy colors. Music thumped through the floor, through my bones, loosening parts of me that had been stiff for months. The air smelled like perfume, alcohol, and something electric—freedom, maybe.
Julian sto...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Takeover
2. Chapter 2 First Clash
3. Chapter 3 Turbulence
4. Chapter 4 Dinner with Sharks
5. Chapter 5 The Trap at Sunrise
6. Chapter 6 Shadows in Glass Towers
7. Chapter 7 Flight into Fire
8. Chapter 8 The Boardroom Blitz
9. Chapter 9 The Ambush
10. Chapter 10 After the Storm
11. Chapter 11 Cracks in the Glass
12. Chapter 12 Fire in the Boardroom
13. Chapter 13 The Dinner Deal
14. Chapter 14 The Night the World Burned
15. Chapter 15 The Betrayer's Hand
16. Chapter 16 Blood in the Boardroom
17. Chapter 17 The War Begins
18. Chapter 18 The Lion's Den
19. Chapter 19 Ashes of Proof
20. Chapter 20 The Ghost in the Fire
21. Chapter 21 The Rebirth
22. Chapter 22 Prototype of Pain
23. Chapter 23 Ashes and Alibis
24. Chapter 24 The Ones Who Should've Died
25. Chapter 25 Out of Reach
26. Chapter 26 Return of Isla
27. Chapter 27 Hidden Tension
28. Chapter 28 Secrets Between Us
29. Chapter 29 Shadows of the Past
30. Chapter 30 Fractured Truths
31. Chapter 31 Web of Lies
32. Chapter 32 The Paternity Test
33. Chapter 33 The Stupid Thing Called Love
34. Chapter 34 Unexpected-expected knock
35. Chapter 35 The One Thing Left to Fix
36. Chapter 36 Calm After The Storm
37. Chapter 37 The Encounter
38. Chapter 38 The Rebuild
39. Chapter 39 A New Beginning
40. Chapter 40 The Floor Above
41. Chapter 41 Rooftop Strangers
42. Chapter 42 The Ceiling Between Us
43. Chapter 43 Zero Feelings
44. Chapter 44 Learning to Move On
45. Chapter 45 The Perfect Assistant
46. Chapter 46 Magnetic
47. Chapter 47 Fever and Fire
48. Chapter 48 Green Elena
49. Chapter 49 Date Night
50. Chapter 50 Cold Front
51. Chapter 51 The Breaking Point
52. Chapter 52 The Sleepover
53. Chapter 53 The Morning After
54. Chapter 54 Blurred Lines
55. Chapter 55 Not Losing Him Easily
56. Chapter 56 The Fallout
57. Chapter 57 This Means War
58. Chapter 58 The Inevitable Collision
59. Chapter 59 Ghost Touch
60. Chapter 60 Something Trying to Fade
61. Chapter 61 Oopsie
62. Chapter 62 Where Secrets Stop Breathing
63. Chapter 63 Lucas with the Bomb
64. Chapter 64 When Proximity Turns Dangerous
65. Chapter 65 The Tie Between Us
66. Chapter 66 Two Lines
67. Chapter 67 It's YOU, you Imbecile!
68. Chapter 68 …ready to strangle him with my IV line
69. Chapter 69 The Deleted Confession
70. Chapter 70 Anger at His Threshold
71. Chapter 71 Wedding Weekend Chaos
72. Chapter 72 The Proposal
73. Chapter 73 Nothing but Tension
74. Chapter 74 Escape Route
75. Chapter 75 34 missed calls, 22 messages
76. Chapter 76 What Losing Her Feels Like
77. Chapter 77 When Desperation Wins
78. Chapter 78 Back in the Country
79. Chapter 79 Meet Cute Gone Wrong
80. Chapter 80 Stupid Butterflies
81. Chapter 81 In the Club, We're All Friends
82. Chapter 82 Smoke, Mirrors, and Old Ghosts
83. Chapter 83 The Return of Damian Cross
84. Chapter 84 Uninvited Claims
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