Chapter 234 Need to stay close
I've come to learn the quiet, subtle tells of when Bastian is drifting toward a nightmare. Sometimes it stays quiet...just restless, agonizing thrashing beneath the sheets...but on the worst nights, the words bleed through. Tortured, fractured things whispered with a raw, desperate terror that tears...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Captivated
2. Chapter 2 This is Madness
3. Chapter 3 Choke-Hold
4. Chapter 4 A New Obsession
5. Chapter 5 What The Actual Fuck?!
6. Chapter 6 Blindsided 
7. Chapter 7 You
8. Chapter 8 Such a pretty face....
9. Chapter 9 Big News
10. Chapter 10 New Acquisition
11. Chapter 11 Eyes On Me
12. Chapter 12 Promises and Threats
13. Chapter 13 Interest
14. Chapter 14 Rising tensions
15. Chapter 15 ... You're tempted
16. Chapter 16 See you around
17. Chapter 17 I liked it
18. Chapter 18 Watching me
19. Chapter 19 Predator and Prey
20. Chapter 20 Piece by Piece
21. Chapter 21 He's won
22. Chapter 22 Marked
23. Chapter 23 Definitely not a Rebound
24. Chapter 24 Strictly Professional....
25. Chapter 25 Whatever it takes....
26. Chapter 26 Mindfuck games
27. Chapter 27 Push me away
28. Chapter 28 Waking call
29. Chapter 29 Crossed lines
30. Chapter 30 Fixated
31. Chapter 31 There you are...
32. Chapter 32 Checkmate
33. Chapter 33 Broken rules
34. Chapter 34 Don't fight it
35. Chapter 35 Chaos
36. Chapter 36 Too far gone
37. Chapter 37 Are you okay?
38. Chapter 38 Play for me
39. Chapter 39 Boundaries
40. Chapter 40 Cornered
41. Chapter 41 Please
42. Chapter 42 Ninety-six hours
43. Chapter 43 Disappearing act
44. Chapter 44 I saw you
45. Chapter 45 Not in this lifetime
46. Chapter 46 A lost cause
47. Chapter 47 ...Keep you here
48. Chapter 48 Every detail
49. Chapter 49 What a waste...
50. Chapter 50 Talia
51. Chapter 51 Get a grip
52. Chapter 52 Careful, Kaden
53. Chapter 53 On a timeline
54. Chapter 54 The Irony
55. Chapter 55 Don't want to?
56. Chapter 56 Make me
57. Chapter 57 I'm ruined
58. Chapter 58 You're my boss!
59. Chapter 59 You're the first
60. Chapter 60 I don't want to...
61. Chapter 61 Hell of a view
62. Chapter 62 Do you remember?
63. Chapter 63 Anything I want
64. Chapter 64 You can have one
65. Chapter 65 I just don't care
66. Chapter 66 Fix it
67. Chapter 67 You or no one
68. Chapter 68 What's changed
69. Chapter 69 I'll reward you
70. Chapter 70 You are
71. Chapter 71 Let's play
72. Chapter 72 You promised
73. Chapter 73 That works
74. Chapter 74 You need to go
75. Chapter 75 What happened?
76. Chapter 76 I like him
77. Chapter 77 I'm sorry
78. Chapter 78 New storyline
79. Chapter 79 Silent treatment
80. Chapter 80 Go to him
81. Chapter 81 A mistake...
82. Chapter 82 For the best
83. Chapter 83 What IS mine
84. Chapter 84 Irrational
85. Chapter 85 This version's better
86. Chapter 86 Egomaniac
87. Chapter 87 I had to
88. Chapter 88 Deal?
89. Chapter 89 An honest conversation
90. Chapter 90 ...Ease into things
91. Chapter 91 Talk to me
92. Chapter 92 The right thing
93. Chapter 93 One day at a time
94. Chapter 94 He's mine
95. Chapter 95 Anxiety
96. Chapter 96 Miss me already?
97. Chapter 97 I want this
98. Chapter 98 Twenty minutes
99. Chapter 99 Thought you missed me
100. Chapter 100 Confirmation
101. Chapter 101 My place
102. Chapter 102 You that eager?
103. Chapter 103 Oh, God
104. Chapter 104 What I came for
105. Chapter 105 Upper hand
106. Chapter 106 The rest of you
107. Chapter 107 Please....
108. Chapter 108 More contact
109. Chapter 109 Are you scared?
110. Chapter 110 Tell me something
111. Chapter 111 Daddy issues
112. Chapter 112 A bit excessive
113. Chapter 113 It's empty
114. Chapter 114 I'm leaving
115. Chapter 115 To my face
116. Chapter 116 I'll do better
117. Chapter 117 Come with us?
118. Chapter 118 Paralysis
119. Chapter 119 An urge
120. Chapter 120 I fell asleep
121. Chapter 121 Who's Francis?
122. Chapter 122 Just ask...
123. Chapter 123 Only to you
124. Chapter 124 Save it for later
125. Chapter 125 Something like that
126. Chapter 126 Not a big deal
127. Chapter 127 Stop running from me
128. Chapter 128 Desperately
129. Chapter 129 Like you mean it....
130. Chapter 130 Looked after...
131. Chapter 131 Dangerously vulnerable
132. Chapter 132 He loves her...
133. Chapter 133 I want it
134. Chapter 134 Here we are...
135. Chapter 135 Intrusion
136. Chapter 136 Grandma
137. Chapter 137 Don't do that...
138. Chapter 138 What's going on?
139. Chapter 139 I caused it...
140. Chapter 140 I'll do it anyway
141. Chapter 141 On one condition
142. Chapter 142 Better...
143. Chapter 143 Whenever
144. Chapter 144 Not a fixation
145. Chapter 145 Breathe
146. Chapter 146 Grounded
147. Chapter 147 Genuinely interested
148. Chapter 148 Pest control...
149. Chapter 149 I need this
150. Chapter 150 All the way
151. Chapter 151 Who breaks first
152. Chapter 152 Slower...
153. Chapter 153 The only one
154. Chapter 154 The right person
155. Chapter 155 Like you like me
156. Chapter 156 Undone
157. Chapter 157 Fixated on it...
158. Chapter 158 In big trouble
159. Chapter 159 When the time's right
160. Chapter 160 A gutting blow
161. Chapter 161 Spare a few minutes
162. Chapter 162 It's okay...
163. Chapter 163 It feels wrong
164. Chapter 164 Why does it matter?
165. Chapter 165 If anyone asks...
166. Chapter 166 The wrong person
167. Chapter 167 Risk
168. Chapter 168 I'd really like to
169. Chapter 169 An absolute mess
170. Chapter 170 I'm compromised
171. Chapter 171 Keep you safe
172. Chapter 172 Why now?
173. Chapter 173 Double standard
174. Chapter 174 All I am to you
175. Chapter 175 Wildly unfair
176. Chapter 176 Do you trust me?
177. Chapter 177 Joshua Maddox
178. Chapter 178 A gift
179. Chapter 179 Out of the way
180. Chapter 180 Now matters more
181. Chapter 181 You should go
182. Chapter 182 ...see me broken
183. Chapter 183 Keep digging
184. Chapter 184 Easy for you to say
185. Chapter 185 Good for us
186. Chapter 186 Tied to too much
187. Chapter 187 Let it
188. Chapter 188 Out of control
189. Chapter 189 Every single time
190. Chapter 190 Quiet crisis
191. Chapter 191 Dissolve into him
192. Chapter 192 By his rules
193. Chapter 193 Something necessary
194. Chapter 194 Ticking down
195. Chapter 195 Emotional leverage
196. Chapter 196 Everything to me
197. Chapter 197 Going to be perfect
198. Chapter 198 Weightless
199. Chapter 199 What's going on?
200. Chapter 200 Not in pain
201. Chapter 201 Terrified
202. Chapter 202 Gotten myself into
203. Chapter 203 Don't shut me out
204. Chapter 204 Off-scale
205. Chapter 205 Come to bed
206. Chapter 206 More of you
207. Chapter 207 Room to breathe
208. Chapter 208 A big deal
209. Chapter 209 And then I freeze...
210. Chapter 210 Stanley Vaughn
211. Chapter 211 I'm no one's son
212. Chapter 212 Still just running
213. Chapter 213 Beyond saving
214. Chapter 214 It's on me
215. Chapter 215 We'll find a way
216. Chapter 216 Do your part
217. Chapter 217 For you
218. Chapter 218 Ten minutes
219. Chapter 219 Stay here
220. Chapter 220 I'm staying right here
221. Chapter 221 Let me help him
222. Chapter 222 She sounds better
223. Chapter 223 It's still me
224. Chapter 224 Accept that
225. Chapter 225 On top of everything
226. Chapter 226 Consider reaching out
227. Chapter 227 I'm asking you
228. Chapter 228 Into the dark
229. Chapter 229 I ‘am’ running
230. Chapter 230 I need you here
231. Chapter 231 He lets me breathe
232. Chapter 232 I liked it
233. Chapter 233 He knew
234. Chapter 234 Need to stay close
235. Chapter 235 I need you
236. Chapter 236 Long day
237. Chapter 237 You seem agitated
238. Chapter 238 I heard you
239. Chapter 239 Say another word
240. Chapter 240 I know a guy
241. Chapter 241 Whatever I want
242. Chapter 242 Take me apart
243. Chapter 243 It's everything
244. Chapter 244 For Kaden...
245. Chapter 245 A good place
246. Chapter 246 You're first
247. Chapter 247 The real issue
248. Chapter 248 A viable plan
249. Chapter 249 The effort is enough
250. Chapter 250 Old blood
251. Chapter 251 Failed him
252. Chapter 252 What did you do?
253. Chapter 253 I needed the burden
254. Chapter 254 Can I?
255. Chapter 255 Don't
256. Chapter 256 Have both
257. Chapter 257 We don't hang out
258. Chapter 258 Stop disappearing
259. Chapter 259 I'll pass
260. Chapter 260 We make a plan
261. Chapter 261 Never had this before
262. Chapter 262 What I want
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