Chapter 52 The Compromise
The silence in the farmhouse kitchen was a physical presence. It was thick and cold, pressed against Aria’s back where she stood at the sink. She could feel Sebastian’s gaze on her, a weight as real as a hand. She didn’t turn. She listened to the sound of his breathing, uneven and strained, and the ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Road Back
2. Chapter 2 Ghosts In Familiar Places
3. Chapter 3 The museum on the Hill
4. Chapter 4 The Director's Domain
5. Chapter 5 The Mentor's Wisdom
6. Chapter 6 The Fierce Friend
7. Chapter 7 The Morning After
8. Chapter 8 Early Arrival
9. Chapter 9 The Collision
10. Chapter 10 The Laboratory of Lost Things
11. Chapter 11 The Weight of Memory
12. Chapter 12 Small Town Whispers
13. Chapter 13 The Keeper of Secrets
14. Chapter 14 The Education of Hostility
15. Chapter 15 The Fallout 
16. Chapter 16 The Call
17. Chapter 17 The Document
18. Chapter 18 Professional Distance
19. Chapter 19 The Bird and The Truth (Part 1)
20. Chapter 20 The Bird and The Truth (Part 2)
21. Chapter 21 The Son We never Held
22. Chapter 22 The Morning After the Loss
23. Chapter 23 The Name That Broke the Dawn
24. Chapter 24 The Weight Of What We Owe Each other
25. Chapter 25 What It Cost To Love You
26. Chapter 26 Our Unfinished Truth
27. Chapter 27 Together
28. Chapter 28 The text
29. Chapter 29 No more Running
30. Chapter 30 The day safety ended
31. Chapter 31 Lockdown
32. Chapter 32 The warning brick
33. Chapter 33 The vale doctrine 1
34. Chapter 34 The vale doctrine 2
35. Chapter 35 The space between calls
36. Chapter 36 When the light goes out
37. Chapter 37 Between ticks
38. Chapter 38 The Unspoken Rulebook
39. Chapter 39 The countdown
40. Chapter 40 Counting the minutes
41. Chapter 41 Lost Contact
42. Chapter 42 A truth you can't unpublish
43. Chapter 43 Under oat
44. Chapter 44 The Dark Night of the Soul
45. Chapter 45 The Rescue Plan
46. Chapter 46 The Extraction
47. Chapter 47 The Falsified Confession
48. Chapter 48 The Imprisonment
49. Chapter 49 Sebastian's Isolation
50. Chapter 50 The Price of Peace
51. Chapter 51 Lia's Report
52. Chapter 52 The Compromise
53. Chapter 53 Marcus’s Debt
54. Chapter 54 The Auction
55. Chapter 55 The Weekend Away
56. Chapter 56 The Sister
57. Chapter 57 Echo
58. Chapter 58 Cove
59. Chapter 59 Interrogation
60. Chapter 60 Crack
61. Chapter 61 Crack
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