Chapter 19: Sanctuary's Edge
AVA’S POV
The coldness around me felt louder than anything else. The bed beside me was empty. Julian was gone.
But his presence hadn't faded completely. The air still smelled like him… rich cedar, deep, smoky whiskey, and something warmer, something that had ever only smelled of him. It clung...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Gilded Cage
2. Chapter 2: Echoes and Embers
3. Chapter 3: Charcoal and Scars
4. Chapter 4: Embers and Ultimatums
5. Chapter 5: Smudged Lines
6. Chapter 6: Fractures in the Glass
7. Chapter 7: Six O'Clock Shadows
8. Chapter 8: Apartment Reverberations
9. Chapter 9: Echoes of Silence

10. Chapter 10: Terrace Atelier

11. Chapter 11: Fractured Loyalties

12. Chapter 12: Crossroads of Control

13. Chapter 13: The Spark Before The Fire 

14. Chapter 14: Shattered Focus

15. CHAPTER 15: Embers & Anchor

16. Chapter 16: The Forbidden Pull

17. Chapter 17: Echoes at Midnight

18. Chapter 18: Surrendered Boundaries

19. Chapter 19: Sanctuary's Edge

20. Chapter 20: Anchor's Fracture

21. Chapter 21: Into The Night

22. CHAPTER 22: Aftermath

23. Chapter 23: Cracks in the Ice

24. Chapter 24: Shadows and Echoes

25. Chapter 25: Poisoned Blood

26. Chapter 26: The Taste of Ash and Ambition

27. Chapter 27: Whispers and Warning Signs

28. Chapter 28: Smoke and Shadows

29. Chapter 29: The Suffocating Orbit

30. Chapter 30: Gilded Cages

31. Chapter 31: The Fracture After the Storm

32. Chapter 32: Aftershock

33. Chapter 33: Claimed in the Quiet

34. Chapter 34: Entangled at Dawn

35. Chapter 35: The Quiet Between Heartbeats

36. Chapter 36: Morning of Submission

37. Chapter 37: Chaos & Consequences

38. Chapter 38: The Price of Defiance

39. Chapter 39: Ashes and Obsession

40. Chapter 40: Fractured Shapes

41. Chapter 41: Scars of Surrender


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