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CHAPTER TWENTY- A Debt She Didn’t Owe

Author: OPRAH JAE
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-19 08:04:21

Harry had been gone for weeks, quietly disappearing from the city in the same breath that Elena fled from the chaos that shattered her life. But he never truly left her. The day she walked away, broken and barely breathing from the weight of the truth. Harry had followed her careful to Monte Carlos unknown to her, silent, almost invisible. He stayed far enough not to intrude, but close enough to protect her if the world dared to wound her again. He watched her enter the old Rivera cabin, a place soaked with memories, and for the first time in years, he felt the aching sting of helplessness. He wanted to go to her. He wanted to hold her. But she was drifting in an ocean of chaos, and he had no right to reach for her.

Weeks passed, each one heavy with unspoken feelings. In the silence of his own guilt and longing, Harry decided to return not as the man tied to the mistakes of the past, but as the man who could no longer deny what he felt. It is been weeks after Miguel’s death and Elena
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  • SILENT BETWEEN TWO HEARTS   CHAPTER SEVENTY Seven: A Public Moment That Tests Harry

    The evening was supposed to be uncomplicated.That was what Harry told himself as La Rivera filled steadily with guests investors, patrons, artists, longtime supporters, and curious newcomers drawn by the renewed buzz around the Revival Series. The room glowed with anticipation, the kind that came only when something had survived disruption and returned stronger. Soft music threaded through conversations. Glasses clinked. Laughter drifted upward, warm and unforced.It should have felt like a victory.Instead, Harry felt the familiar tightening in his chest the warning signal that came whenever the past brushed too close to the present.Elena moved through the room with composed assurance, greeting guests, checking details, steadying the energy of the space without ever drawing attention to the effort it required. She wore confidence like second skin tonight, not performative, not defensive earned. People responded to it instinctively. They leaned toward her when she spoke. They waited

  • SILENT BETWEEN TWO HEARTS   CHAPTER SEVENTY SEVEN: New Harry!

    Harry moved differently now.It was subtle so subtle that anyone who did not know him intimately would miss it. But Elena noticed. She always had. The way he paused before speaking, the way he listened without interrupting, the way his eyes lingered as though committing moments to memory rather than letting them pass unchecked.This time, he was deliberate.Harry knew what was at stake.He had been given something rare: not forgiveness, not absolution, but a second chance to prove that he could be trusted again. And he understood, perhaps more clearly than ever before, that if he failed this time if he misstepped, doubted her instincts again, or allowed fear to cloud his judgment the door between them would not merely close.It would lock.And he would deserve it.So he moved carefully, not out of fear, but out of respect. He no longer assumed Elena would always remain, no longer relied on the history between them to carry him through moments of uncertainty. He was learning, painfully

  • SILENT BETWEEN TWO HEARTS   CHAPTER SEVENTY FIVE: The Reconciliation

    Elena had imagined a day like this more times than she was willing to admit.Not in dramatic detail, not as a fantasy she clung to, but as a quiet possibility she kept tucked away something fragile she refused to touch for fear it would disappear. A day when the weight between her and Harry would finally lift. A day when silence would no longer be mistaken for distance. A day when the love she had buried under responsibility, pride, and pain would find its way back to the surface.She had stopped hoping for it.Or at least, she had told herself she had.For months, Elena had trained her heart to move forward without expectation. She had convinced herself that focusing on La Rivera, the festivals, the Revival Series, and the relentless rhythm of rebuilding was enough. Work gave her structure. Purpose. Control. It was safer to pour herself into something tangible than to linger in the uncertainty Harry represented.Because Harry was not just a man she loved.He was history.He was famil

  • SILENT BETWEEN TWO HEARTS   CHAPTER SEVENTY FOUR: La Rivera, Where Everything Began

    La Rivera had always carried a certain kind of quiet magic.Even on its busiest nights, something was grounding about the place, an unspoken promise that whatever happened within its walls mattered. It was more than a lounge, more than an artistic space. It was a testament to resilience, vision, and the kind of love that didn’t shout to be heard.That evening, the lights were low, the staff gone, and the city outside hummed softly as though respecting the stillness inside.Elena stood near the center of the room, arms folded loosely, her gaze traveling across the space she had nearly lost. The Revival Series banners had been restored, the art carefully rehung, every detail returned to its rightful place. Yet it felt different now. Lighter. Honest.Harry watched her from a short distance away.He had seen Elena in this room countless times, confident, commanding, unshakeable. But tonight, there was something else in her posture. Not weakness. Reflection. The kind that only comes after

  • SILENT BETWEEN TWO HEARTS   CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE: Her Rightful Place

    The truth had finally come to light, and with it came a quiet but unmistakable shift in everything surrounding Elena. Lies that had once clouded judgment were stripped away, leaving clarity in their wake. There were no dramatic declarations anymore, no need for Elena to defend herself or prove what she had always known. The evidence had spoken. The illusion had collapsed.And for the first time in a long while, Elena could breathe.She returned to La Rivera not as someone fighting for legitimacy, but as the woman who had built it from the ground up, the visionary everyone now recognized and trusted. The Revival Series was reinstated under her leadership, not as a replacement for what had been disrupted, but as a reaffirmation of purpose. This version of the Revival was steadier, more intentional, and rooted in truth rather than spectacle.The atmosphere within the lounge had changed.Staff members who once avoided her gaze now greeted her warmly. Those who had quietly sided with Helen

  • SILENT BETWEEN TWO HEARTS   CHAPTER SEVENTY TWO

    Helen was stunned by how completely she had been outplayed.The realization did not arrive gently; it struck her with force, sharp and humiliating. Every move she had made, every layer of control she believed she held, had unraveled in a single, devastating moment. The applause, the sympathy, the carefully staged illusion, all of it had slipped through her fingers before she could tighten her grip.And there was only one person capable of doing that to her.Elena.The name burned in her mind. Helen replayed the events again and again, searching for another possibility, another enemy she might have overlooked. But there was none. Elena had been the only constant variable, the only one who never fully surrendered to the lie, the only one who watched instead of reacting.Helen had underestimated her.She had mistaken Elena’s restraint for weakness, her silence for fear, her patience for indecision. She had believed Elena would crumble under pressure, retreat when isolated, accept defeat

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