Chapter 17: Just Say It
Clay's POV
That sentence of Dolores's landed in the room and no one picked it up, like water off the eaves tapping the boards of the porch step, one drop at a time.
The strange part was that I wasn't nervous. I noticed my own lack of nerves before I noticed anything else, the way a man finds a war...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: A Ruined Party
2. Chapter 2: An Unexpected Night
3. Chapter 3: Chance Encounter
4. Chapter 4: A New Name
5. Chapter 5: The Argument
6. Chapter 6: The Broken Shop
7. Chapter 7: The Turn
8. Chapter 8: The Ones Who Came to Watch
9. Chapter 9: The Proposal
10. Chapter 10: The Terms of a Nameless Man
11. Chapter 11: A Name That Wasn't His
12. Chapter 12: The Hurried Wedding
13. Chapter 13: One Wedding, Two Ledgers
14. Chapter 14: The Uninvited Guest
15. Chapter 15: The Other Side of Him
16. Chapter 16: The Blank Line
17. Chapter 17: Just Say It
18. Chapter 18: A Breath Beneath the Oak Shadow, and the Undercurrent
19. Chapter 19: The Damp Ledger and the Unfinished Puzzle
20. Chapter 20: The Empty Chair and the Second Resignation
21. Chapter 21: Persons of Interest
22. Chapter 22: By His Own Measure
23. Chapter 23: The Test Run
24. Chapter 24: The Solution
25. Chapter 25: Empty Shop, Empty Cup
26. Chapter 26: The Feeling I Can't Suppress
27. Chapter 27: The Night That Undid Me
28. Chapter 28: An Unexpected Visitor
29. Chapter 29: Drunk Words and Locked Doors
30. Chapter 30: The Man in the Photo
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