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Tangled. love

Chapter 3 What Love Leaves Behind.

Word Count: 1173    |    Released on: 26/05/2025

SA'S

Minutes

minutes later,

already

the swelling around my eyes, the redness that screamed pain and def

own, grabbed my bag, and

ped into the park

s face. My heart clenched. Even from afar, I could see he was tired, but his smi

r the mask of my usual self. But I could feel the weight of my lie, my s

wide. "There's my

into th

s did when I was younger, and spun me sl

ile, the first in w

and gently studying my face. "I left everyt

some rest." I spoke quickly, praying he wouldn't look

d ushered me

during our rare drives, he'd tell me about his meetings

want him to see me broken. So I

not

" he asked, glancing

h. "Just trying

rying not to remember Michael's words. But they echoed anyway, vicious, cold, hum

k away the tear

dam giving way. I couldn't hold it b

ice cracked. "What's

ned to

e road!"

saw it, a monstrous truck barreling toward us

that happened in

inding against metal. The viol

n. A

ness, like the earth d

en bla

ide down, trapped, pain radiatin

asoline, and shattered glass. Somewhere behind the

ned m

Slumped over th

came out hoarse,

mov

and the twisted angle of his arm, he twist

shiel

near, he used his body to cover mine, pulling debris away from my head

hen I un

een the

ke the brunt of the hit himself, placing h

dn't think about himsel

from that unbearable truth. He had protec

ain but at least I saw him smil

eek L

e darkness. Sterile white walls. IV drips. B

ed, but my sou

y voice

ened, and then she broke into a sha

ce, it was something else.

brushing my hair back gently. "I thought I'd

me like a hammer.

ice rose in panic, "Where

peak. She just

o, no

like a wound. "Please, PLEASE TELL ME HE

e told me

ing machines, none of it mattered anymore. My so

I was alive. He

hy didn't I notice sooner how much he

n was, I thought it was actually the hum

was like someone reached into my chest and ripped my h

he bed, the weight of i

AEL'

passed sin

day I thought I was teaching her a lesson. The day

ome to schoo

. "She's just a 10th grader

to swallow. I saw the video, how I stood there,

l I wanted was to see her face, say I was sorry. Not because I deserved fo

ed up: a future, an empire to inherit, a legacy to buil

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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.