Chapter 115 Deliberation
The waiting room felt like purgatory.
It was a small conference room down the hall from the courtroom institutional beige walls, uncomfortable chairs, a table with water bottles and stale cookies that no one touched. We'd been here for three hours.
Three hours of waiting. Of pacing. Of checking ph...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The offer
2. Chapter 2 The Decision
3. Chapter 3 Lily
4. Chapter 4 Singed and Sealed
5. Chapter 5 The Wedding
6. Chapter 6 The First Night 
7. Chapter 7 Hide and seek
8. Chapter 8 The debut
9. Chapter 9 Practice makes chemistry
10. Chapter 10 The Gala
11. Chapter 11 One dance too many
12. Chapter 12 Fallout
13. Chapter 13 Lines we crossed
14. Chapter 14 The Morning After
15. Chapter 15 Slow Burn
16. Chapter 16 The studio
17. Chapter 17 For "Sophia"
18. Chapter 18 The Confrontation
19. Chapter 19 Saving Grace
20. Chapter 20 Truth and Consequences
21. Chapter 21 From Paper to Promise
22. Chapter 22 Moving Forward
23. Chapter 23 Passing the Torch
24. Chapter 24 Something borrowed, something blue
25. Chapter 25 Preparatory
26. Chapter 26 I do Again
27. Chapter 27 Emotionally
28. Chapter 28 Honeymoon plans
29. Chapter 29 Dawn of us
30. Chapter 30 The late House
31. Chapter 31 Completely
32. Chapter 32 Truth and Twilight
33. Chapter 33 Carbonara
34. Chapter 34 First Days
35. Chapter 35 Seven Hours Apart
36. Chapter 36 New Beginning
37. Chapter 37 Where I Belong
38. Chapter 38 Shadows of the Past
39. Chapter 39 Trust and temptation
40. Chapter 40 The other Woman
41. Chapter 41 The Ex Factor
42. Chapter 42 Cracks and Foundation
43. Chapter 43 Calculated Moves
44. Chapter 44 The Dinner Party
45. Chapter 45 Seed of Doubts
46. Chapter 46 The First Notification
47. Chapter 47 Archive Personal
48. Chapter 48 Playing House
49. Chapter 49 Sleeping Beside The Enermy
50. Chapter 50 The morning After
51. Chapter 51 Don't tell Adrian
52. Chapter 52 When Love Feels Like a Lie
53. Chapter 53 The Meeting
54. Chapter 54 Questions without Answers
55. Chapter 55 What he Hid
56. Chapter 56 The Confession
57. Chapter 57 Not what it Seems
58. Chapter 58 The Flash Drive
59. Chapter 59 Before it's too Late
60. Chapter 60 The Warning
61. Chapter 61 The Break-In
62. Chapter 62 Fractures
63. Chapter 63 The Cabin
64. Chapter 64 Vanished
65. Chapter 65 The Ultimatum
66. Chapter 66 The First Day
67. Chapter 67 Hostage
68. Chapter 68 Pressure Point
69. Chapter 69 Unmasking the Mastermind
70. Chapter 70 Captured by Kindness
71. Chapter 71 The Hard Way
72. Chapter 72 Space Between Breaths
73. Chapter 73 Someone Will Die Tonight
74. Chapter 74 The Long Drive North
75. Chapter 75 The Road to Ruin
76. Chapter 76 The Fracture
77. Chapter 77 The Breaking Poit
78. Chapter 78 A Heartbeat in Chaos
79. Chapter 79 Broken, not Lost
80. Chapter 80 Homecoming
81. Chapter 81 Learning to be Still
82. Chapter 82 The Weight of what-Ifs
83. Chapter 83 Facing Ghosts
84. Chapter 84 Closure in Chains
85. Chapter 85 A New Kind of Promise
86. Chapter 86 One Day at a Time
87. Chapter 87 The Weight of Waiting
88. Chapter 88 Before the Trial
89. Chapter 89 Our Little Alian
90. Chapter 90 Bug Sister Promise's
91. Chapter 91 The Nursery
92. Chapter 92 The Barrier
93. Chapter 93 Fight or Flight
94. Chapter 94 Survival isn't Peace
95. Chapter 95 Final Preparations
96. Chapter 96 After Midnight
97. Chapter 97 The Final week
98. Chapter 98 Reasonable Doubts
99. Chapter 99 Day One
100. Chapter 100 Vior Dire
101. Chapter 101 The Day Before
102. Chapter 102 Guilty but not Gone
103. Chapter 103 The Truth
104. Chapter 104 On the Stand
105. Chapter 105 Aftermath
106. Chapter 106 A Woman on Trial
107. Chapter 107 Breaking Point
108. Chapter 108 Objection my Lord
109. Chapter 109 The Waiting
110. Chapter 110 Reasonable Doubt
111. Chapter 111 The Performance
112. Chapter 112 Final Witness
113. Chapter 113 Closing Arguments
114. Chapter 114 The Defense Rest
115. Chapter 115 Deliberation
116. Chapter 116 When Silence Falls
117. Chapter 117 After Everything
118. Chapter 118 Closure
119. Chapter 119 Six Months Later
120. Chapter 120 Home, Truly
121. Chapter 121 Years Apart
122. Chapter 122 The last thread
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