Chapter Twenty: Four Times in One Night
Clara's Pov
2:47 a.m.
I lay facing the wall, blanket pulled up to my chin, posture so textbook-perfect that anyone who saw me would have said without hesitation: fast asleep.
Only my brain refused to cooperate.
It kept replaying those two seconds on a loop—the back of my hand pressing agai...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Museum and the Mouse
2. Chapter Two: Do You Want to Come?
3. Chapter 3: The Dinner Standoff
4. Chapter 4: The Durian Incident
5. Chapter 5: What Survives in the Fridge
6. Chapter Six: And How Exactly Do You Plan to Manage That?
7. Chapter 7: Feeding the Cat
8. Chapter Eight: And Then, You Fell for Her
9. Chapter Nine: Reasons Hard to Explain
10. Chapter Ten: Call a Car?
11. Chapter Eleven: Coming to Take You Home
12. Chapter Twelve: Tomorrow
13. Chapter Thirteen: Four Times
14. Chapter Fourteen: Forgot Them Again
15. Chapter Fifteen: Come a Little Closer
16. Chapter 16: The Temperature of Honey
17. Chapter Seventeen: Sweet
18. Chapter Eighteen: Two Fingers of Light
19. Chapter Nineteen: I Couldn't Sleep Either
20. Chapter Twenty: Four Times in One Night
21. Chapter Twenty-One: The One
22. Chapter 22
23. Chapter 23: On the Way
24. Chapter 24
25. Chapter 25: The "Someone Else"
26. Chapter 26
27. Chapter 27
28. Chapter 28
29. Chapter 29: What That Ring Was Really For
30. Chapter 30
31. Chapter 31: Peel Them for Me
32. Chapter 32: You Scared Me
33. Chapter 33: It’s Perfectly Normal for My Wife to Pay
34. Chapter 34: The Family Account
35. Chapter 35: Meeting Grandfather Tonight
36. Chapter 36: Buy Another Pair
37. Chapter 37: Replacing a Four-Hundred-Year-Old Ring
38. Chapter 38: Two Centimeters Shorter
39. Chapter 39: The Other Side of the Wall
40. Chapter 40: Beacon Hill's Four Hundredth Winter
41. Chapter 41: His Wife
42. Chapter 42: You Are My Wife
43. Chapter 43: They've Been Waiting for You
44. Chapter 44: When Are You Going to Give Me a Child
45. Chapter 45: Let Sterling Move In
46. Chapter 46: Tomorrow Evening, Sterling Will Go to Beacon Hill
47. Chapter 47: The Immortal Blood Oranges
48. Chapter 48: A Four-Page List
49. Chapter 49: You'll Be Quite a Handful for That Household
50. Chapter 50: That Blanket
51. Chapter 51: He Ran Up the Stairs
52. Chapter 52: You Married Me
53. Chapter 53: Don't Lose It
54. Chapter 54: The First of Every Month
55. Chapter 55: Keep Your Wife in Check
56. Chapter 56: Thirty-Four Minutes
57. Chapter 57: Professor Mason
58. Chapter 58: Tell Me a Story
59. Chapter 59: What Did You Say Last Night
60. Chapter 60: No More "Professor Mason"
61. Chapter 61: Julian
62. Chapter 62: What Exactly Is "Two"?
63. Chapter 63: One Bedroom
64. Chapter 64: Eight Left
65. Chapter 65: Eight Times What
66. Chapter 66: Seven
67. Chapter 67: Deduct Eight
68. Chapter 68: Seven — I Know
69. Chapter 69: That Is Your House
70. Chapter 70: Half the Wardrobe
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