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Chapter 85 The reckoning
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Released on: 06/01/2026
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Contents
Chapter 1 Author's Note
Chapter 2 It starts with a storm
Chapter 3 The Man in the dark suit
Chapter 4 The Contract Bride
Chapter 5 The Glass Mansion
Chapter 6 A smile for the cameras
Chapter 7 The Warning
Chapter 8 The Warning II
Chapter 9 Famous but not free
Chapter 10 Between one hole and the next
Chapter 11 Clause Seven
Chapter 12 Confidence is Dangerous
Chapter 13 Before you can say no
Chapter 14 Terms and Conditions
Chapter 15 Practice makes Perfect
Chapter 16 Everyone here knows you
Chapter 17 A Generous Competition
Chapter 18 Heartstrings
Chapter 19 And Scene
Chapter 20 The Hourglass Room
Chapter 21 Cheap Thrills
Chapter 22 In Plain Sight
Chapter 23 I got my eyes on you
Chapter 24 Closed-Proximity
Chapter 25 The Space Between
Chapter 26 Hold me back
Chapter 27 Meet the Family:Part One
Chapter 28 Meet the Family:Part Two
Chapter 29 Dinner with the Hales
Chapter 30 The Interim Job
Chapter 31 Strange, How
Chapter 32 Stay The Night
Chapter 33 Compromises
Chapter 34 The Morning After
Chapter 35 Wedding Rendezvous
Chapter 36 Pedal to the heart
Chapter 37 Silent reckoning
Chapter 38 The cost of knowing
Chapter 39 Tangled Truths
Chapter 40 Saved by the bell
Chapter 41 The Air feels Lighter Somehow
Chapter 42 Blurry Truths
Chapter 43 Neither Here Nor Gone
Chapter 44 Collateral
Chapter 45 Project Helix
Chapter 46 Ultimatum
Chapter 47 A breath of fresh air
Chapter 48 Tender Evidence
Chapter 49 Eyes on you
Chapter 50 The Monster I've Become
Chapter 51 Breaking Open
Chapter 52 Shattered control
Chapter 53 Aftermath
Chapter 54 Fault lines
Chapter 55 Come closer
Chapter 56 No Room to Lie
Chapter 57 Intrusion
Chapter 58 The Uninvited
Chapter 59 Ugly cookies
Chapter 60 The other woman
Chapter 61 Between Us
Chapter 62 Family matters
Chapter 63 The cost of love
Chapter 64 Birdwatching
Chapter 65 Glasswalls
Chapter 66 Frontlines of the Heart
Chapter 67 Ticking clocks
Chapter 68 Scraps
Chapter 69 No turning back
Chapter 70 Thin ice
Chapter 71 Blind spots
Chapter 72 Plausible Doubt
Chapter 73 Hostage Theory
Chapter 74 Dangerously So
Chapter 75 A man with nothing to lose
Chapter 76 The Journal
Chapter 77 One last time
Chapter 78 Quiet Opulence
Chapter 79 False confidence
Chapter 80 Illumination
Chapter 81 Cornered
Chapter 82 No way out
Chapter 83 The Governor's Ball
Chapter 84 Art of Deception
Chapter 85 The reckoning
Chapter 86 Truth under lights
Chapter 87 Epilogue
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