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Chapter 5 Everything is Strange

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g into someone else's story, a life that didn't quite bel

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hers. It sounded like someone who had grown up attending galas, not someone w

cious. Quiet. And entirely too elegant for a woman who used to fall asleep on a seco

bed with pristine white linens. A walk-in closet the size of her old living room. A

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ike her n

h her. It felt surreal, being this high up, above all the noise and

or time to think. And she certainly wasn't used to luxury t

barefaced, hair loose, wrapped in a robe that

t feel li

uest. Or worse, a

soft knock

, startled

oved the jacket and rolled up the sleeves. He looked exhausted. L

up a small tray with two mugs and a plate of wha

ked. "Are

ly. "Well, not by me. My housekeeper

at tugged at her lips. "Didn't peg y

the room and placed the tray on the

as she sat on the bed. Daniel t

the quiet clinking of mugs as they sipped coc

e said finally.

brow raised. "For the

ke a business transaction

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got dumped for a we

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itted. "The space. The quiet. I

mug on the tray.

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, surprised. "You

's had to survive for so long, she

rder than s

keep thinking I should be crying. Or panicking. Or r

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is time, the silence wasn't unc

ing his sleeves down

k to the door, then

tur

d the cocoa. And for not making

than usual when he rep

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Contents

Chapter 1 Goodbye Chapter 2 Strangers Promises Chapter 3 The Contract Chapter 4 Sealing with a Ring Chapter 5 Everything is Strange Chapter 6 The Unexpected Wife
Chapter 7 All eyes on me
Chapter 8 Almost, Maybe, Something
Chapter 9 Seeing Him
Chapter 10 The Dinner Date
Chapter 11 The Dinner With the Hastings
Chapter 12 Cracks in the Armor
Chapter 13 The Space Between Us
Chapter 14 Echoes of the past
Chapter 15 Fault Lines
Chapter 16 shadows and Signatures
Chapter 17 The Cost of Loyalty
Chapter 18 Beneath the Surface
Chapter 19 Shadows in the Open
Chapter 20 The Taste of Truth
Chapter 21 A War we didn't choose
Chapter 22 The Price of Silence
Chapter 23 Ashes and Reckoning
Chapter 24 The thing We Carry
Chapter 25 Ashes and Echoes
Chapter 26 Tangled lies
Chapter 27 Threads of Betrayal
Chapter 28 Beneath the surface
Chapter 29 Shadows and fire
Chapter 30 The Madrid Gambit
Chapter 31 The Price of war
Chapter 32 No way out
Chapter 33 The Judas Within
Chapter 34 When the shadows strike
Chapter 35 Echoes in the Fire
Chapter 36 The Cost of Truth
Chapter 37 Echoes in there
Chapter 38 The Phoenix and the shadows
Chapter 39 The Ashes and the Crown
Chapter 40 The Tipping point
Chapter 41 Lines in the sand
Chapter 42 When Shadows find you
Chapter 43 The Wolves are Watching
Chapter 44 The Gathering storm
Chapter 45 The Devil's welcome
Chapter 46 Daughters of Fire
Chapter 47 What comes after the Fire
Chapter 48 Into the Northern Silence
Chapter 49 When the Fire leaves Behind
Chapter 50 Ashes and Thunder
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