Chapter 37 The Morning After
Morning arrives without ceremony.
No dramatic sunrise. No clear line between what was and what is.
Just light—thin at first—slipping through the blinds and settling across my wall in pale stripes. Dust motes float lazily in it, catching gold like they’ve got nowhere else to be.
I don’t move.
Jac...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Ava
2. Chapter 2 Partners In Disaster
3. Chapter 3 Thursday Trouble
4. Chapter 4 Volunteer Chaos and Questionable Decisions
5. Chapter 5 Data, Disasters and Dorm Room Tension
6. Chapter 6 The Problem With Proximity
7. Chapter 7 The Problem With Feelings I Don't Want
8. Chapter 8 The Things I Don't Say
9. Chapter 9 When Hope Turns Into Chaos
10. Chapter 10 Avoidance Level: Professional
11. Chapter 11 The Universe Hates Me (Confirmed)
12. Chapter 12 When the Whole Campus Knows
13. Chapter 13 Rumors Have Teeth
14. Chapter 14 The Space Between Us
15. Chapter 15 Almost Something
16. Chapter 16 The Spark and the Spiral
17. Chapter 17 The Distance Between Us
18. Chapter 18 Her Opening Move
19. Chapter 19 The Strike
20. Chapter 20 The Truth I Didn't Ask For
21. Chapter 21 The Shaking Ground
22. Chapter 22 The Meeting I Don't Want
23. Chapter 23 The Day Everything Breaks
24. Chapter 24 Fault Lines
25. Chapter 25 The Part That Hurts
26. Chapter 26 When the Floor Falls Out
27. Chapter 27 The Space Between Us
28. Chapter 28 Crossfire
29. Chapter 29 Lines In the Sand
30. Chapter 30 The Line We Can’t Uncross
31. Chapter 31 The Dinner At the Edge of the Map
32. Chapter 32 Neon Warnings
33. Chapter 33 The Plot of No Return
34. Chapter 34 Blood in the Margins
35. Chapter 35 The Shape of the Trap
36. Chapter 36 What Survives
37. Chapter 37 The Morning After
38. Chapter 38 What Comes After
39. Chapter 39 Choosing Forward
40. Chapter 40 Becoming
41. Chapter 41 Forward Motion
42. Chapter 42 Eyes Open
43. Chapter 43 Horizons Ahead
44. Chapter 44 Roots and Wings
45. Chapter 45 Full Circle
46. Chapter 46 Beyond the Threshold
47. Chapter 47 What We Carry forward
48. Chapter 48 Distance, Defined
49. Chapter 49 What We Chose to Carry
50. Chapter 50 What Comes with Me
51. Chapter 51 The shape of Forward
52. Chapter 52 Where the Light Stays
53. Chapter 53 The Knock at 6:12 A.M
54. Chapter 54 What He Carried Here
55. Chapter 55 The Story that Knocks
56. Chapter 56 The Hour Between Then and Now
57. Chapter 57 What Truth Doesn’t Chase
58. Chapter 58 The Quiet After Choosing
59. Chapter 59 The Space Between
60. Chapter 60 Horizons In Motion
61. Chapter 61 The Shape Of Arrival
62. Chapter 62 The Letter That Wasn’t For Me
63. Chapter 63 What We Don’t Say First
64. Chapter 64 The Space Between Then and Now
65. Chapter 65 What We Don’t Say Yet
66. Chapter 66 The Message I Almost ignore
67. Chapter 67 The Call I Can’t Prepare For
68. Chapter 68 The Name In the File
69. Chapter 69 The Truth She Carried
70. Chapter 70 The Mark of What’s possible
71. Chapter 71 The Something Else
72. Chapter 72 The Other
73. Chapter 73 The Lesson
74. Chapter 74 The Shadow In Plain Sight
75. Chapter 75 The First Test
76. Chapter 76 Shadows In the Project
77. Chapter 77 The Whistleblower
78. Chapter 78 Three Weeks One Flight
79. Chapter 79 The Submission Day
80. Chapter 80 Into the Next Phase
81. Chapter 81 Across the Country
82. Chapter 82 Full Circle, Full Heart
83. Chapter 83 The Hurdle
84. Chapter 84 Unanticipated Ties
85. Chapter 85 The Cross-Country Rush
86. Chapter 86 After the Rush
87. Chapter 87 Picking the Threads
88. Chapter 88 The Final Stretch
89. Chapter 89 Tying Loose Ends
90. Chapter 90 The Unexpected Turn
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