Chapter Sixty-Two—The Locked Drawer
Vivienne/First-Person POV
I hadn’t opened the drawer in years.
Not since before Emeline disappeared. Not since Edward died.
It was an ordinary drawer by all appearances—oak-handled, slightly rusted on the edges. But the key, long and thin, with its ornate antique curve, had always sat on a ve...
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Chapters
1. Prologue — “That Night in the Fire”
2. Chapter One – “A Beautiful Scene”
3. Chapter Two – “Inheritance of Silence”
4. Chapter Three – “The Girl in the Photograph”
5. Chapter Four – “An Unquiet Frame”
6. Chapter Five – “Absence in Frame”
7. Chapter Six – “The Man in the Gallery”
8. Chapter Seven – “We Don’t Name the Dead”
9. Chapter Eight – “Curated Memories”
10. Uncatalogued Exhibit: Emeline
11. Chapter Nine – “The Girl in Glass”
12. Interlude – “What the Evidence Doesn’t Say”
13. Chapter Ten – “Negative Space”
14. Memory Fragment – “A Curator’s Confession”
15. Chapter Eleven – “Playback”
16. Interlude – “Blueprints of the Unseen”
17. Archive Fragment – “The Line Between Us”
18. Chapter Twelve – “File Not Found”
19. Interlude – “Officially Missing”
20. Chapter Thirteen – “West Wing, West Memory”
21. Chapter Fourteen – “He Who Signed in Silence”
22. Chapter Fifteen – “The Sketchbook of Her”
23. The Emeline Dossier
24. Chapter Sixteen – “The Living Gallery”
25. Westchester Psychiatric Center
26. Chapter Seventeen – “The Girl Behind the Glass”
27. Chapter Eighteen – “Alcestis”
28. Chapter Nineteen – “The Door Edward Never Meant to Open”
29. Chapter Twenty – “The Suicide That Wasn’t”
30. Chapter Twenty-One – “The Wall That Doesn’t Exist”
31. Chapter Twenty-Two – “I Signed the Walls”
32. Interlude – “The Missing Line”
33. Emotional Insert – “The Room of Forgotten Things”
34. Chapter Twenty-Three – “The Girl in the Drawing”
35. Chapter Twenty-Four
36. Chapter Twenty-Five
37. Chapter Twenty-Six
38. Chapter Twenty-Seven
39. Emeline
40. Edward’s Voice Recording
41. Chapter Twenty-Eight
42. Interlude — Detective Marlowe
43. Chapter Twenty-Nine
44. FLASHBACK: The Winter Blackout
45. Chapter 30 – The Girl in Red
46. Chapter 31 – The Echo in the Floorboards
47. Interlude – Entry Without a Name
48. Chapter 32
49. Chapter 33
50. Chapter 34
51. Interlude IV — The Forgotten Room
52. Chapter 35
53. Chapter 36
54. Interlude — Before the Gallery
55. Interlude — What I Buried
56. Interlude — The Things I Remembered Too Late
57. Chapter 37
58. Chapter 38
59. Chapter 39
60. Chapter 40
61. Chapter forty-one
62. Chapter Forty-Two
63. Chapter Forty-Three- memory loop
64. Chapter Forty-Four
65. Chapter Forty-Five
66. Chapter Forty-Six
67. Chapter Forty-Seven
68. Chapter Forty-Eight
69. Chapter Forty-Nine -The Mirror Room
70. Chapter Fifty- The Surveillance Cut
71. Chapter Fifty-One— The Mirrors Remember
72. Chapter Fifty-Two—file seven
73. Chapter Fifty-Three—The canvas door
74. Chapter Fifty-Four— The Mirror Was Never Just Glass
75. Chapter Fifty-Five— Beneath the Glass
76. Chapter Fifty-Six —Interlude: The Archivist’s Final Entry
77. Chapter Fifty-Seven—Through the Mirror
78. Chapter Fifty-Eight— In Her Father’s Wake
79. Chapter Fifty-Nine— The Locked Door
80. Chapter Sixty Interlude—The Memory Loop
81. Chapter Sixty-One—The Erasure Log
82. Chapter Sixty-Two—The Locked Drawer
83. Chapter Sixty-Three—The Memory Loop
84. Chapter Sixty-Four—The Room She Wasn’t In
85. Chapter Sixty-Five—Interlude: The Missing Panel
86. Chapter Sixty-Six—Memory Loop
87. Chapter Sixty-Seven—The Observer
88. Chapter Sixty-Eight—The Loop Beneath My Skin
89. Chapter Sixty-Nine—The Absence He Left Me
90. Interlude
91. Chapter Seventy
92. Chapter Seventy-One
93. Chapter Seventy-Two
94. Chapter Seventy-Three
95. Chapter Seventy-Four
96. Chapter Seventy-Five
97. Chapter Seventy-Six
98. Chapter Seventy-Seven—The Protocol Vault
99. Interlude: Protocol E
100. Chapter seventy eight
101. Chapter seventy nine
102. Chapter eighty
103. Chapter eighty one
104. Chapter eighty two
105. Chapter eighty three
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