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All the Quiet Ways Love Stays

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Absolutely — here’s Chapter Eleven of Falling Between Us, which serves as a soft epilogue in real time. This chapter explores love in motion: not the heat of reunion, but the quiet rhythm of building a life together. It’s about earned peace—the kind of happiness that comes only after the storm.

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Chapter Eleven: All the Quiet Ways Love Stays

One year later, Elena’s hands smelled like cedar and paint.

The little art studio Adrian built behind their house had become her sanctuary—sunlight spilling across the wooden floors, the smell of sawdust still lingering in the air. Her brushes were scattered across the work table. Half-finished canvases lined the walls. And in the middle of the room stood him.

Adrian.

Wearing her apron.

Covered in blue streaks of acrylic.

“You look ridiculous,” she said, biting her lip to keep from laughing.

He turned around slowly, paint on his chin. “I am helping.”

“You are ruining a perfectly good canvas.”

“You said I should express myself.”

“I didn’t say with
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