Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The List
2. Chapter 2: The Stranger in the Room
3. Chapter 3: The Game Begins
4. Chapter 4: Distractions I Don’t Need
5. Chapter 5: The Bet
6. Chapter 6: Ghosts of the Past
7. Chapter 7: Cracks in the Armor
8. Chapter 8: The Edge of Control
9. Chapter 9: The Breaking Point
10. Chapter 10: The First Crack
11. Chapter 11: The Walls That Crumble
12. Chapter 12: The Breaking Point
13. Chapter 13: A Battle She Won’t Fight
14. Chapter 14: Fighting the Unstoppable
15. Chapter 15: A War of Stubbornness
16. Chapter 16: The Art of Losing Control
17. Chapter 17: When the Walls Come Down
18. Chapter 18: A Foreign Feeling
19. Chapter 19: The Moment I Knew
20. Chapter 20: The Things She Hides
21. Chapter 21: The Lines We Cross
22. Chapter 22: Lines That Blur
23. Chapter 23: Something I Can’t Name
24. Chapter 24: A Different Kind of Chaos
25. Chapter 25: Something’s Changed
26. Chapter 26: The Days Between Us
27. Chapter 27: The Wait That Shouldn’t Matter
28. Chapter 28: The First Date That Wasn’t
29. Chapter 29: The One That’s Different
30. Chapter 30: The Point of No Return
31. Chapter 31: The End of Pretending
32. Chapter 32: The Weight of a Kiss
33. Chapter 33: Just So You Know
34. Chapter 34: I Hate That I Miss Him
35. Chapter 35: This Wasn’t Supposed to Happen
36. Chapter 36: The Longest Week of My Life
37. Chapter 37: No Way Back
38. Chapter 38: The Moment I Knew
39. Chapter 39: She’s It
40. Chapter 40: No More Running
41. Chapter 41: No More Games
42. Chapter 42: The Truth I Can’t Say
43. Chapter 43: No Escape
44. Chapter 44: A Different Kind of Dangerous
45. Chapter 45: Nowhere to Run
46. Chapter 46: No More Running
47. Chapter 47: The Next Step
48. Chapter 48: Out of My Depth
49. Chapter 49: My Undoing
50. Chapter 50: Something I Thought I’d Lost
51. Chapter 51: A Place at the Table
52. Chapter 52: The First and the Only
53. Chapter 53: Boyhood and Bedlam
54. Chapter 54: The Moment Everything Changed
55. Chapter 55: Made for Her
56. Chapter 56: A Place I Never Knew I Needed
57. Chapter 57: Something I Never Want to Lose
58. Chapter 58: A Memory I Can’t Escape
59. Chapter 59: The Ghosts I Carry
60. Chapter 60: Her Breaking Point
61. Chapter 61: Every Scar Tells a Story
62. Chapter 62: Letting Her Break
63. Chapter 63: No Way Back
64. Chapter 64: The Point of No Return
65. Chapter 65: The Fear of Having Something to Lose
66. Chapter 66: Proving It
67. Chapter 67: Just Travis Being Travis
68. Chapter 68: No Need to Ask
69. Chapter 69: The Moment I Stop Running
70. Chapter 70: The Moment Leah Finds Out
71. Chapter 71: The Moment They Find Out
72. Chapter 72: The Weight of Forever
73. Chapter 73: The Words I Haven’t Said
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Chapter 31: The End of Pretending
Travis’s POV
Her yes nearly fucking destroyed me.
I wasn’t sure what I was expecting.
Denial. Resistance. Some smart-ass remark that would give me just enough room to pull back, to convince myself that this wasn’t real.
But she didn’t give me any of that.
Instead, she looked at me with thos...
