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 34: I Hate That I Miss Him
Sophia’s POV
I have spent years perfecting the art of not caring.
I don’t get attached. I don’t get distracted. And I definitely don’t sit in my office, staring at the door like some lovesick idiot, waiting for a man who isn’t here.
Except—
That’s exactly what I was doing.
And I hated it.
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