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Tangled. love

Chapter 2 When Reverie Shattered.

Word Count: 1196    |    Released on: 26/05/2025

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is fork hovered mid-air, his smile frozen. Then, slowl

nguage changed, from casu

said with a small,

was wrong, but my feet wouldn't move. My mouth had g

friends, voice rising

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st out aroun

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chair. "Dude, isn't she the weird g

someone else chimed in.

nned, wide,

had this creepy little crush on me

mouth. Nothi

ircles like I was something o

ho confesses and wins the guy." He chuckled. "Except this isn't a

struck lik

ere pathetic and stupid. That's all. You were shaking and dirty a

cut throug

ntasy, every warm dream I'd spun about him, th

t their phone.

her say it again. Le

a scene from a

rd. "Go on, Alessa. Say it again. Say how muc

ria. The sound filled my ears like thunder. Everything bl

speak. Coul

I promised myself I wouldn't cry. My knees buckled. My heart screamed for

I whispered,

chael asked, holdin

n't recognize him. The boy who once saved me from Vane

stranger with a cruel

choked. "For ever th

ed, just for

n I

I used to daydream about walking beside him. Past t

g the door shut, locking the s

br

ent. Helpless. My throat bur

could rip the ache out of m

hated him so much

re tha

r ever thinking I

felt lik

oor, the cold biting into my s

en gasps. Every breath I took felt

dn't breathe without hearing that lau

s voice.

d of the boy

th cruelty I never im

e wors

ow deeply I believed in him. He could've let me down gently...

s to stop the scream cla

d to di

m floor until my phone buzzed inside my bag. I wiped m

ed calls f

mess

Everyone saw what h

ara right now, not when the entire school

hurt lighter. She would have put Michael in his p

chest ached like I'd j

I couldn't stay h

ody woul

ng to find something,

y mind. That warm, reassuring tone he

lessa... you call me, okay

fingers hovered

ably working. He's bus

roat betrayed me. It broke fre

essed the c

e. Then his deep v

prin

one

oke

iolently. I forced myself not to speak

instantly alert. "Sweetheart,

my throat. Tried to so

oice barely steady. "I just.

knew. My father always

What ha

gain. I turned away from the stall door lik

anymore," I whispered. "Plea

n his tone changed

on my

anything els

ust

and wait for me. I'll

ared at the phone sc

this time. Into my palms. Not

having one person left in this

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1 Chapter 1 The Day I Stopped Hiding.2 Chapter 2 When Reverie Shattered.3 Chapter 3 What Love Leaves Behind.4 Chapter 4 A Deal with the Devil.5 Chapter 5 A wife by deadline.6 Chapter 6 Love without Choice.7 Chapter 7 Contract of Thorns.8 Chapter 8 Raindrops and Regrets.9 Chapter 9 Perfect Lie.10 Chapter 10 Beginning of the end.11 Chapter 11 The Wedding Night War.12 Chapter 12 A Stranger in Silk13 Chapter 13 Eggshells and Echoes.14 Chapter 14 Coldest distance.15 Chapter 15 Return to the Unspoken.16 Chapter 16 Homecoming Shadows.17 Chapter 17 Underneath the surface.18 Chapter 18 Quiet Rebellion.19 Chapter 19 Countdown To Her Fall20 Chapter 20 The Price of Disappearing.21 Chapter 21 First Day Jitters.22 Chapter 22 The Plan Was to Break Her, Not Crown Her.23 Chapter 23 THE DAY SHE STOPPED WAITING.24 Chapter 24 UNFINISHED CONVERSATION.25 Chapter 25 UNEXPECTED STILLNESS.26 Chapter 26 Power in Silence27 Chapter 27 After the Slammed Door.28 Chapter 28 Rhythms of Grace and Thunder.29 Chapter 29 Weight of Her Silence.30 Chapter 30 The Sun Came Back.31 Chapter 31 Weight of an Unspoken Shift.32 Chapter 32 Beneath the Surface of Joy.33 Chapter 33 Price of Loyalty.34 Chapter 34 Exceeding Control.35 Chapter 35 Shattered Glass and Silent Truths.36 Chapter 36 Will Within The Walls.37 Chapter 37 Letters from the Past.38 Chapter 38 Uninvited.39 Chapter 39 A Close Call.40 Chapter 40 Triggered Shadows.41 Chapter 41 In A House That Forget.42 Chapter 42 When Joy Meets the Past.43 Chapter 43 Home, at Last.44 Chapter 44 The Day the Silence Screamed.45 Chapter 45 Ghost in December.46 Chapter 46 Things We Don't Say.47 Chapter 47 December Fifteenth.48 Chapter 48 Applause for a Lie.49 Chapter 49 The Illusion of Forgiveness.50 Chapter 50 CHRISTMAS EVE.51 Chapter 51 Warmth of Christmas Morning.52 Chapter 52 Stuck in December.53 Chapter 53 Truth Made Us Allies.54 Chapter 54 UNRAVELING THREADS.55 Chapter 55 When the Fog Breaks.56 Chapter 56 Dragged Back to the Scene.57 Chapter 57 Nothing Left to Cover.58 Chapter 58 Forgiveness in Mascara Smears.59 Chapter 59 What Remains After Sorry.60 Chapter 60 No More Blame.61 Chapter 61 Threads of Truth.62 Chapter 62 In the Smallest Touch.63 Chapter 63 Velvet and Smoke.