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Chapters
Chapter 1: The One Who Never Left
Chapter 2: The One Who Stayed
Chapter 3: The Morning After
Chapter 4: The Echo of Him
Chapter 5: The Chain Between Us
Chapter 6: Unanswered, Unspoken
Chapter 7: Coming for Her!
Chapter 8- Her Undoing
Chapter 9 - Aftermath
Chapter 10- Walking Away
Chapter 11 - Her Scent
Chapter 12: A Confrontation
Chapter 13: Done Playing the Fool
Chapter 14 - The Bathroom Power Play
Chapter 15 - The Aftermath of Violence
Chapter 16 - The Breaking Point
Chapter 17 - Post-Sex Power Struggle
Chapter 18 - His Descent Into Obsession
Chapter 19 - Hard Truths
Chapter 20 - Running Away
Chapter 21 - Silence
Chapter 22 - He’s Gone
Chapter 23 - It Will Never Be Over
Chapter 24 - First Contact
Chapter 25 - The Wedding will Go On!
Chapter 26 - Fly to Her
Chapter 27 - What He does Best
Chapter 28 - Paranoia
Chapter 29 - His Descent
Chapter 30- The Alley Encounter
Chapter 31: The Moment He Walked Away
Chapter 32: The Wedding Day Confession
Chapter 33: The Wedding That Wasn't
Chapter 34: The Wedding Afterparty
Chapter 35: The Return Home
Chapter 36: The Return And The Mission
Chapter 37: The Infiltration
Chapter 38: The Mistake He Didn't Mean
Chapter 39: The Offer She Couldn't Ignore
Chapter 40: DC Arrival
Chapter 41: Seeing Nat Again
Chapter 42: Case Briefing
Chapter 43: Nat Arrival
Chapter 44: Cornered
Chapter 45: The Bar
Chapter 46 - The Collision
Chapter 47- The Night She Didn't Plan For
Chapter 48 - The Morning After
Chapter 49 - The Team Meeting
Chapter 50- The Flight to L.A.
Chapter 51 – The L.A. Move-In
Chapter 52- Two Days In
Chapter 53 - The New Household Dynamic
Chapter 54 - Lara’s Plan: Poking the Bear
Chapter 55 - The Breaking Point
Chapter 56 - The Breaking Point Deepens
Chapter 57 - The Restaurant Breakdown
Chapter 59 - The Calm Before the Storm
Chapter 60 - The Threat Unfolds
Chapter 61 - The Safehouse Confrontation
Chapter 62 - The Safehouse Confession 2
Chapter 63 - The Kidnapping
Chapter 64 - The War Begins
Chapter 65 - The Hunt for Nat
Chapter 66 - Captive and Exposed
Chapter 67 - Nat’s Reckoning
Chapter 68 - The Fire That Burns to The Aftermath
Chapter 69 - Caught
Chapter 70 - The Hotel Escape to The Fear That Remains
Chapter 71 - Gift of Vengeance to The Aftermath
Chapter 72 - Falling Apart
Chapter 73- Giving in
Chapte 74– Domestic Bliss
Chapter 75 – Spa Day & First Date
Chapter 76 – Griffith Park & Marina
Chapter 77 - Building Something Real
Chapter 78 – The Cartel Case Resumes
Chapter 79- What Has Ginger Been Up To?
Chapter 80 The Kitchen Confrontation
Chapter 81- A whiskey Half Full
Chapter 83- A rude awakening
Chapter 84- Dad Comes for a Visit
Chapter 85- Late
Chapter 86- A Ginger’s Retreat
Chapter 87- My Childhood Prison
Chapter 88- A Massive Loss
Chapter 89- Heart to Heart
Chapter 90- Prove It
Chapter 91- Who Says You Can't Go Home
Chapter 92- Whore
Chapter 93- Midwestern Wedding??
Chapter 94- Father of the Bride
Chapter 95- Stolen Bride
Chapter 96- The Bride Fights Back
Chapter 97 - Dream Wedding
Chapter 98- Wedding Night
Chapter 99- Vegas is Always a Good Idea
Chapter 100- A Night to Remember
Chapter 101 - The Hot Tub - Use the Blonde
Chapter 102- We Survived Our Wedding Night
Chapter 103 - Reality?
Chapter 104 - A New Kind of War
Chapter 105 - The Devil's Truce
Chapter 106 - Back to Work
Chapter 107 - Into the Field
Chapter 108 - The Kiss Heard Around the World
Chapter 109 - Cold War
Chapter 110 - Handling Nat
Chapter 111 - The Task Force and the Kiss
Chapter 112 - A Mother’s Visit
Chapter 113 - The Pregnancy Test Fiasco
Chapter 114 - Grandma’s Moving In
Chapter 115 - Unfinished Business
Chapter 116 - First Glimpse
Chapter 117 - A New Life
Chapter 118 - Coming Home
Chapter 119 - Silent Gestures
Chapter 120 - Conversations on Motherhood
Chapter 121 - Gone Without a Trace
Chapter 122 - The Desert Betrayal
Chapter 123 - Roman's Web
Chapter 124 - Nat's Defiance
Chapter 125 - Born in the Desert
Chapter 126 - Desert Dawn
Chapter 127 - Welcome Home
Chapter 128 - Balancing Acts
Chapter 129 - Boys’ Night and Buried Truths
Chapter 130 - Confrontation Behind Bars
Chapter 131 - Vacation?
Chapter 133 - A Familiar Face
Chapter 134 - Between Friends
Chapter 135 - No Turning Back
Chapter 136 - Morning After
Chapter 137 - Debrief
Chapter 138 - Confrontation
Chapter 139 - Clearing the Air
Chapter 140 - After the Dust Settles
Chapter 141 - Crossing the Line
Chapter 142 - No Turning Back
Chapter 143 - Breaking Point
Chapter 144 - After the Storm
Chapter 145 - Uncharted Territory
Chapter 146 - The Disappearance
Chapter 147 - The Rescue
Chapter 148 - Twisted Realizations
Chapter 149 - The Breaking Point
Chapter 150 - Boundaries Shattered
Chapter 151 - The Morning After
Chapter 152 - Between Us
Chapter 153 - Sun, Sand, and Something More
Chapter 154 - Back to Reality
Chapter 155 - Rebuilding Us
Chapter 156: Slipping Through Fingers
Chapter 157: Breaking Point
Chapter 158: Into the Lion’s Den
Chapter 159: No Other Way
Chapter 160: Aftermath
Chapter 161: The Cage
Chapter 162: The Hunt
Chapter 163- The Long Game
Chapter 164: The Cost of Survival
Chapter 165: The Morning After
Chapter 166: A Show of Devotion
Chapter 167: Behind Closed Doors
Chapter 168: Unspoken Tensions
Chapter 169: Fractured Lines
Chapter 170: The Edge of Control
Chapter 171: Bound and Unraveled
Chapter 172: The Return
Chapter 173: Signed and Sealed
Chapter 174: A Step Behind
Chapter 175: The Breaking Point
Chapter 176: The Quiet Between Us
Chapter 177: The Ghost of Who I Was
Chapter 178: Slipping Away
Chapter 179: The Calm Before the Storm
Chapter 180: The Siege
Chapter 182: Hollow
Chapter 183: Silence and Shadows
Chapter 184: The First Words
Chapter 185: Letting Go
Chapter 186: Echoes of the Past
Chapter 187: Ghosts of the Past
Chapter 188: One Last Time
Chapter 189: The Last Night
Chapter 190: The Morning After
Chapter 191: A Quiet Existence
Chapter 192: Letting Go
Chapter 193: Ghosts of the Living
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Chapter 51 – The L.A. Move-In
The heat hit the second they stepped out of LAX.
Thick, dry, suffocating—the kind of heat that could melt pavement if given the chance.
Nat adjusted her sunglasses, shifting her bag higher on her shoulder. The new city smell—hot asphalt, jet fuel, a faint trace of salt in the distance—felt foreign, ...
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