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🩷GRIEF🩷

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Chapter Eleven

*Celeste*

He made breakfast.

The real kind—not toast and eggs, but something thoughtful. French toast soaked just right, berries rinsed and sweet, coffee the way I liked it, even though I never told him how.

I sat at the table wrapped in one of his shirts, legs curled under me, quietly studying the man who had become a stranger and a sanctuary in the same breath.

He moved around the kitchen like he belonged in it. Like he knew where everything was. The coffee filters. The cinnamon. The chipped mug I always used when I was anxious.

And for the first time, something strange whispered across my thoughts.

How did he know?

I pushed the question down, chasing it with a sip of hot coffee and the memory of his arms around me last night. The way he’d touched me like I was something sacred—not broken.

He set a plate in front of me with a small, almost shy smile. “Did I get it right?”

I nodded, voice caught in my throat. “Perfect.”

He sat across from me, slee
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  • Until The Lie Loved Me   🌟ILYAN ROARKE🌟

    *Celeste*The silence followed me long after I left the room.I closed the door behind me, leaned my back against it, and stared at the hallway like it could offer answers. But the air was heavy. Still. A little too still.The cabin felt like a stranger now. I used to move through it with ease. Now every shadow looked like it might reach for me. Every creak in the floorboards sounded like a threat.I stepped toward the window and pulled the curtain back just an inch.Nothing.Just trees and more trees. No headlights. No footprints in the thin layer of dirt that clung to the porch.But the wrongness? It was there. A pressure I couldn’t shake.Behind me, I heard Elias’ door open. His footsteps were quiet, like always—but I didn’t turn around.“We need to leave,” I said.A pause.“Why?”“I don’t know,” I admitted. “But something’s coming. I can feel it.”---*Elias*She wasn’t wrong.I’d heard the sound too—barely a whisper in the wind, something offbeat. The birds had gone quiet. The us

  • Until The Lie Loved Me   🩷SECOND CHANCE🩷

    Chapter Twelve*Celeste*The suitcase clicked shut with a finality that felt like a funeral.I stood over it, palms pressed against the hard shell, trying not to cry. My bedroom—once pristine, once mine—was in chaos. Drawers yanked open. Closet half-empty. The life I’d built, now reduced to a duffel and a carry-on.He stood in the doorway.Not Jordan.Not even a stranger anymore.Just a ghost wearing a familiar skin.I didn’t speak to him. Couldn’t. Not without crumbling under the weight of it all. The betrayal, the truth, the surreal ache of losing a husband I hadn’t even loved—and gaining a man I wasn’t sure I could hate.“You ready?” he asked gently.I zipped my coat without answering.The house groaned as we moved through it, every creak of the floorboards a goodbye. I paused by the piano, the one Jordan never let me touch. My fingers grazed a single key, and the soft note echoed in the silence like a memory.Outside, a black SUV idled.I hesitated at the threshold, staring at the

  • Until The Lie Loved Me   🩷GRIEF🩷

    Chapter Eleven *Celeste* He made breakfast. The real kind—not toast and eggs, but something thoughtful. French toast soaked just right, berries rinsed and sweet, coffee the way I liked it, even though I never told him how. I sat at the table wrapped in one of his shirts, legs curled under me, quietly studying the man who had become a stranger and a sanctuary in the same breath. He moved around the kitchen like he belonged in it. Like he knew where everything was. The coffee filters. The cinnamon. The chipped mug I always used when I was anxious. And for the first time, something strange whispered across my thoughts. How did he know? I pushed the question down, chasing it with a sip of hot coffee and the memory of his arms around me last night. The way he’d touched me like I was something sacred—not broken. He set a plate in front of me with a small, almost shy smile. “Did I get it right?” I nodded, voice caught in my throat. “Perfect.” He sat across from me, slee

  • Until The Lie Loved Me   🩷HEALING🩷

    Chapter Ten *Celeste* The motel smelled like bleach and old air. The kind of place no one asked questions, where the walls were too thin and the silence too loud. I didn’t ask him where we were. I just followed. He parked the car around the back, hidden from the road, and walked me through the narrow hallway without saying a word. The door creaked open, and the room was what I expected two twin beds, stained curtains, a TV older than my marriage. Still, it felt safer than anywhere I’d been in weeks. He locked the door behind us, then double-checked the windows. Watching him move fluid, methodical, should’ve comforted me, but my chest wouldn’t unclench. I stood in the center of the room, arms wrapped around myself. “Do you think he’ll come here?” “No,” he said, setting the duffel bag down near the dresser. “Not tonight.” “But eventually.” “Yes.” That honesty. It always caught me off guard. “Do you ever lie?” I asked. He paused, then looked at me. “Not to you.”

  • Until The Lie Loved Me   🩷The Return🩷

    Chapter Nine *Jordan* She thinks she can hide. That’s the first thing I think as I light a cigarette and lean against the hood of the black SUV parked at the edge of the gas station. A run-down joint with peeling signage and a weak overhead light buzzing like a fly that refused to die. This was her kind of place now, wasn’t it? Somewhere quiet. Anonymous. Easy to vanish into. But she’d never been good at staying gone. I blow out a slow stream of smoke, watching it curl toward the sky before dissipating into the humid morning air. A week ago, I’d woken up in a hospital bed with a hole in my memory and a burning certainty in my chest: something was wrong. The doctors said head trauma. Confusion. Temporary memory loss. Bullshit. Because I remembered her. Celeste. My wife. My property. And I remembered what it felt like to own her. But something was off. The house had been cleaned. Too clean. My gun safe—emptied. My private phone wiped. And her closet? Bare.

  • Until The Lie Loved Me   🩷SAFETY🩷

    CHAPTER EIGHTThe silence in the motel room stretched like a loaded wire—taut, humming, waiting to snap.He sat in the corner chair, booted feet planted, arms crossed over his chest like sleep was something he’d forgotten how to do. I lay on the bed, facing the wall, the rough sheets clinging to my skin with the humidity.Neither of us said it—but we both knew. This wasn’t rest. It was retreat.“Can’t sleep?” His voice sliced gently through the quiet.I turned to face him. “Can you?”A pause. Then, “Never really learned how.”That should’ve unsettled me. But it didn’t. Because the truth was, I hadn’t either—not in a long time. Not since the man I thought I married started locking doors behind me and smiling like it meant something.Now here I was. Sharing space with a stranger who wore my husband’s face, and yet—my body didn’t shrink from him. My fear had shape, yes, but it didn’t come from him anymore. It came from the world that wanted me dead. The world that trained him.“You don’t

  • Until The Lie Loved Me   🩷TRUST ME, TELL ME🩷

    Chapter Seven I waited until he thought I was asleep. The fire had burned down to embers, casting the room in shadows that stretched long and sharp across the wooden floor. He sat on the edge of the couch, elbows on his knees, head in his hands. I watched him through half-lidded eyes, pretending the weight of exhaustion had finally claimed me. But inside, I was boiling. That photo had shattered something. Not just the illusion of safety, but the illusion of ignorance. I couldn’t pretend anymore. Not when my face had been photographed by someone who wasn’t supposed to exist. Not when the man who now watched over me like a bodyguard with too much guilt might’ve once been my executioner. “Why didn’t you tell me the truth?” My voice broke the silence, low but steady. He looked up sharply. “Celeste…” “Don’t say my name like that,” I snapped, sitting up fully. “Like you know me. Like you haven’t been lying to me since the moment you opened your eyes in that hospital bed.” His lips

  • Until The Lie Loved Me   🩷THE LONG GAME🩷

    Chapter Six The hum of the tires on asphalt was the only sound between us. No radio. No words. Just silence—and the occasional creak of the leather seat when he shifted. The road ahead was black, ribboned by shadows and streaks of fog. Trees loomed like sentinels on either side, tall and bare, their branches skeletal against the moonlight. We hadn’t seen another car in hours. I wrapped my arms around myself, but it wasn’t the cold I was trying to fight. It was the feeling creeping up my spine—the sense that everything familiar had been swallowed whole, and I was drifting in the dark with a stranger beside me. Except… he wasn’t a stranger anymore, was he? Not after the way his voice had broken when he said my name last night. Not after the way he touched my hand like it was both a promise and an apology. He hadn’t looked at me since we left. But I could feel him watching the road like it was a battlefield. Like he expected something—or someone—to leap out of the dark

  • Until The Lie Loved Me   🩷DEPARTURE🩷

    Chapter FiveI didn’t sleep.Not really.Every time I closed my eyes, I felt the ghost of his lips on my skin. Not in a haunting way—but in a way that made my body ache with confusion.Outside, the woods whispered to themselves, the branches creaking like old secrets. Inside, the fire had burned low, casting a soft orange halo across the cabin walls. I lay on one side of the bed—stiff, guarded, half-covered by the quilt—while he slept a breath away.Or pretended to.“Are you awake?” I whispered.His voice was a low hum in the dark. “Yeah.”Of course he was.Silence again. Long and loaded.“I keep thinking I’m going to wake up,” I said, “and none of this will be real. That you’ll be gone. Or worse, that he’ll be back.”He shifted beside me, turning onto his side so we were face to face in the dark. “Celeste... he’s not coming back.”“Except he already has,” I murmured. “Every time I look at you.”His hand moved slowly, sliding between us until his fingers found mine. “Then look deeper.

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