Chapter 180 The Bitter Lie
Rylan's POV
The line rang twice before she picked up.
"Hello?"
Her voice sounded tired. Worn down in a way I hadn't heard before, even through all the months of careful distance I'd kept between us. It was past three in the morning on my end — which meant she was already into her morning, six hou...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 White Roses
2. Chapter 2 Divorce Papers
3. Chapter 3 What Burns
4. Chapter 4 Anniversary
5. Chapter 5 One Last Time
6. Chapter 6 Heterochromia
7. Chapter 7 The Glass Eye
8. Chapter 8 Blindsided
9. Chapter 9 The Price of Lies
10. Chapter 10 Her Side
11. Chapter 11 Storm (1)
12. Chapter 12 Storm (2)
13. Chapter 13 Nightmare
14. Chapter 14 The Offer
15. Chapter 15 Stripped Bare
16. Chapter 16 Breaking Point
17. Chapter 17 Lies and Truth
18. Chapter 18 Rejected Care
19. Chapter 19 The Ultimatum
20. Chapter 20 The Gift
21. Chapter 21 Shattered
22. Chapter 22 Abandoned
23. Chapter 23 Hunted
24. Chapter 24 Salvage
25. Chapter 25 Broken Expectations
26. Chapter 26 Free Fall
27. Chapter 27 The Confrontation
28. Chapter 28 Obligations
29. Chapter 29 The Search
30. Chapter 30 Blood and Reckoning
31. Chapter 31 Thirty-Five Minutes
32. Chapter 32 Judgment
33. Chapter 33 The Last Goodbye
34. Chapter 34 The Funeral and the Choice
35. Chapter 35 Choices in the Cracks
36. Chapter 36 Reunion
37. Chapter 37 The Café Confrontation
38. Chapter 38 The Game (1)
39. Chapter 39 The Game (2)
40. Chapter 40 The Winner
41. Chapter 41 Instinct's Choice
42. Chapter 42 Shattered
43. Chapter 43 Trap
44. Chapter 44 Shattered Redemption
45. Chapter 45 The Price of Silence
46. Chapter 46 Empty Bed
47. Chapter 47 Collision
48. Chapter 48 Party Accident
49. Chapter 49 Caught
50. Chapter 50 Possession and Interrogation
51. Chapter 51 Caged Beast
52. Chapter 52 Fractures and Choices
53. Chapter 53 Shopping
54. Chapter 54 Collision
55. Chapter 55 Claws in the Corridor
56. Chapter 56 The Price of Pride
57. Chapter 57 Declined
58. Chapter 58 The Proof
59. Chapter 59 Rescue
60. Chapter 60 Silence
61. Chapter 61 Inspection
62. Chapter 62 Late Truth
63. Chapter 63 No Right
64. Chapter 64 The Unraveling
65. Chapter 65 Afterburn
66. Chapter 66 Behind Closed Doors
67. Chapter 67 Gathering
68. Chapter 68 Cold Shoulders
69. Chapter 69 Shattered
70. Chapter 70 Unsensible Mark
71. Chapter 71 The Morning After
72. Chapter 72 Seeing Off
73. Chapter 73 Envelope
74. Chapter 74 The Truth of the Mark
75. Chapter 75 What's Yours
76. Chapter 76 Not a Weapon
77. Chapter 77 The Dial Tone
78. Chapter 78 Twenty-Four
79. Chapter 79 A Farce
80. Chapter 80 Monodrama
81. Chapter 81 The Empty Place
82. Chapter 82 Empty
83. Chapter 83 The End of Wanting
84. Chapter 84 Ugly Truth
85. Chapter 85 Unexpected Gift
86. Chapter 86 Caged
87. Chapter 87 The Last Time
88. Chapter 88 Hunger Strike
89. Chapter 89 The Spoon
90. Chapter 90 Bleed
91. Chapter 91 The Last Morning
92. Chapter 92 The Last Visit
93. Chapter 93 Farewell at the Stone
94. Chapter 94 Escape
95. Chapter 95 Koana Bay
96. Chapter 96 The First Night
97. Chapter 97 Coastline
98. Chapter 98 Cracks in the Tide
99. Chapter 99 Coconut and Lies
100. Chapter 100 First Dibs
101. Chapter 101 The Wandering Page
102. Chapter 102 Reunion
103. Chapter 103 Empty Gun
104. Chapter 104 The Kindness of Strangers
105. Chapter 105 What the Silence Answered
106. Chapter 106 Standoff
107. Chapter 107 Unhealed Wound (1)
108. Chapter 108 Unhealed Wound (2)
109. Chapter 109 New Beginning
110. Chapter 110 No Right at All
111. Chapter 111 Bookstore Morning
112. Chapter 112 Two Pet Dogs
113. Chapter 113 A Dignified Exit
114. Chapter 114 Only You
115. Chapter 115 The Escape
116. Chapter 116 A Third Way
117. Chapter 117 The Idea
118. Chapter 118 The One in Her Heart
119. Chapter 119 The Grand Opening Plan
120. Chapter 120 The Face at the Door
121. Chapter 121 Unexpected Visitor
122. Chapter 122 The Ones Who Vanish
123. Chapter 123 A Useful Little Bird
124. Chapter 124 The Bait
125. Chapter 125 The Question
126. Chapter 126 The Hook
127. Chapter 127 The Trap Springs (1)
128. Chapter 128 The Trap Springs (2)
129. Chapter 129 Takeout
130. Chapter 130 Paying Rent
131. Chapter 131 Careful
132. Chapter 132 Divorced
133. Chapter 133 The Ledger
134. Chapter 134 After Hours
135. Chapter 135 Two Lines
136. Chapter 136 Inventory
137. Chapter 137 Mrs. Ashford
138. Chapter 138 The Porch
139. Chapter 139 The Receipt
140. Chapter 140 The Clean Job
141. Chapter 141 Three Names on One Knife
142. Chapter 142 The List
143. Chapter 143 Four Seconds
144. Chapter 144 Careful
145. Chapter 145 Three Rings
146. Chapter 146 The Weight of White
147. Chapter 147 The Street
148. Chapter 148 What Should Have Been Mine
149. Chapter 149 Still Asking
150. Chapter 150 The Third Night
151. Chapter 151 The Shadow Behind the Wall
152. Chapter 152 The Price of the Call
153. Chapter 153 Off the Board
154. Chapter 154 The Last Night
155. Chapter 155 Real This Time
156. Chapter 156 The Father Beneath the Mask
157. Chapter 157 The Long Con (1)
158. Chapter 158 The Long Con (2)
159. Chapter 159 Two Minutes Out
160. Chapter 160 Light the Match
161. Chapter 161 Red
162. Chapter 162 Into the Fire
163. Chapter 163 In There
164. Chapter 164 The Door
165. Chapter 165 Before Camille
166. Chapter 166 The Line of Night
167. Chapter 167 The Long Night
168. Chapter 168 Dead End Hallway
169. Chapter 169 The Call
170. Chapter 170 The Empty Field
171. Chapter 171 Clockwork
172. Chapter 172 The One Who Came Back
173. Chapter 173 The Watcher
174. Chapter 174 The Wrong Person
175. Chapter 175 The Trap
176. Chapter 176 The Hook
177. Chapter 177 Sold
178. Chapter 178 Caged
179. Chapter 179 The Only Voice
180. Chapter 180 The Bitter Lie
181. Chapter 181 Awakening in Ashes
182. Chapter 182 No Past
183. Chapter 183 The Empty Grave
184. Chapter 184 Home
185. Chapter 185 Yours
186. Chapter 186 Gone
187. Chapter 187 Confession
188. Chapter 188 The Debt
189. Chapter 189 Vows
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