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Chapter Eight: The Wrong Kind of Watching
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Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Thirty-Two: The Room Remembers
POV: HaleyI'm still at the airport. Tell me to stay and I will.I read it standing barefoot on my own kitchen tile, the notebook still open on my desk behind me, the ink going dry under my lamp I forgot to turn off.I don't call. Calling gives him time to talk me out of it, or worse, gives me time to talk myself out of it first.Stay. Please.Two words. No context, no apology tucked in for Nathan, nothing softened enough to explain away later if anyone asked why I sent it. I hit send the way you rip a bandage before your hand can second-guess it.Ten minutes crawl by with nothing. Then he sends a photo, no caption attached.A boarding pass, torn straight down the middle, sitting on a bar counter under the kind of fluorescent light that makes everything look slightly sick. B7. Window seat. Gone.I stare at it long enough that the screen dims twice before I touch it again."You good?" Marcus asks from the couch, not glancing up."Yeah."It comes out easy, practiced, and it's the first
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Thirty-One: The Answer He Already Knew
POV: HaleyNathan doesn't move. He just keeps looking at me. The silence stretches long enough that I start talking to end it."I kissed Kai."Nothing changes on his face, and somehow, that's worse. He just watches me, like he's confirming a number he already had written down somewhere."When?""Does it matter?""It matters to me." His voice stays level, almost gentle. "When.""Last night. Before I came home to Marcus."He nods once, slow, and reaches into his jacket pocket, and for one absurd second I think he's going to pull out a ring, that this is somehow the moment he chooses to do it anyway, out of spite or desperation.He pulls out his phone instead."I saw you." He turns the screen toward me. A photo, grainy, Kai's hand tangled in my hair, my fingers gripping the front of his jacket, caught mid-kiss on the sidewalk. "Zara sent it to me an hour ago. I've been sitting with it since before I even knocked on your door."The floor tilts slightly under me."Nathan, I'm—""Wait. You k
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Thirty: What I Can't Say Out Loud
POV: Haley"Whose door, Marcus?"He picks at a loose thread on his sleeve instead of answering right away."My mom's." Quiet, like saying it low might make it smaller. "Three months ago. He came to the house.""What happened?""I was in the pantry." He looks at the floor. "I heard her tell him I wasn't home. Straight to his face. Her voice wasn't even steady, and she still did it… she still lied for me."I sit with the image of it for a second—a woman standing in her own doorway holding a lie together while her son crouches behind canned goods listening to her voice crack."Does she know what's happening tonight? That he found you again, that you're here?""She knows it happens. She's always known." He finally looks up. "She just doesn't know where I ran to this time. I told her I was staying with a friend from work.""You haven't told her about me.""I don't know how." His hands go still on his lap. "I don't know if telling her about you just puts you in whatever this is. She spent y
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Boy Who Waited
POV: HaleyThe footsteps don't slow down.I grab his sleeve before I can think better of it, some part of me moving faster than the rest, and pull him through my doorway. He doesn't resist. I slam the door and throw the deadbolt, both hands shaking too hard to line it up on the first try.He flattens himself against the wall beside my coat rack, out of sight of the peephole, like hiding from someone at a stranger's door isn't new to him.We stand there breathing too loud in the dark.The footsteps reach my floor. Stop.A long pause, long enough that I start to think whoever it is has already gone past, and then a fist hits the door once, hard."Marcus." A voice I don't know, calm enough to make my stomach tighten. "I know you're in there."The boy beside me goes white. He shakes his head quickly, both hands raised. Don't answer.Ten seconds pass like ten minutes. Then the footsteps retreat, slow at first, then faster, all the way down the stairwell.He exhales like he's been holding i
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Twenty-Eight: Careful Enough to Warn Me
POV: HaleyI was right.That's the first thing that actually lands underneath it all. Not hurt, not yet. Just the strange, cold satisfaction of finding out the thing you suspected was true the whole time."She's watching," I say, mostly to myself, and Kai looks up at me."She knew exactly what I was going to find before I found it. That's the only way you send a text like this.""Haley.""No, think about it." I turn the phone toward him like he needs to see it again. "Don't go looking for the lake house. Not are you okay, not we need to talk, not even an explanation. A warning. She knows exactly what I've found.""Calm down.""I don't want to be calm." I set the phone down harder than I mean to. "How does a woman who hasn't shown up in my life for years know I'm getting close to something? She's watching me, Kai."He doesn't argue with any of it. He just watches me get it out, arms crossed loosely, patient in a way that would annoy me if I had the energy left to be annoyed by it.By t
Wild Enough To Heal Chapter Twenty-Seven: Her Mother's Name
POV: KaiMy father doesn't raise his voice. That's how I know it's bad."You skipped the follow-up. Fourteen hours after closing the biggest deal of the quarter, and you skipped it.""I had a reason.""I don't care about your reason." He straightens a stack of papers on his desk that doesn't need straightening. "Your cousin Damian would've been on that call. He'd have handled the fallout, smoothed it over, made it look intentional. You made me look like I can't control my own son.""Haley collapsed. She was in the hospital.""And that's your problem how, exactly?" He looks at me for the first time since I walked in. "She has a boyfriend. She has a family. What she doesn't have is any claim on your time when I need you somewhere else."I don't answer that, because there's no version of the answer that won't make this worse."I need something from you," I say instead. "There's a woman, Renata Hughes. Used to work Haley's medical practice, handled her family's records for years, disappea
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