Chapter 35: The Quiet Between Heartbeats
AVA’S POV
Sunlight crashes over me like a punch as it streams into this massive bedroom in Julian's oceanside hideaway, pulling me awake to cold sheets and that sickening hollow. I panic for a moment… thinking they've abandoned me again, like that first night with Julian, when I'd woken up to a...
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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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