All Chapters of 365 Days With My Fake Husband : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

The city had begun to breath again. Days had passed since the Syndicate's fall, but the smoke still lingered like the ghost of every battle fought beneath it's shadow. Streets once soaked in blood were now being scrubbed clean, glass replaced, walls patched. Life, cautious and fragile, was returning. Jessica stood by the window of the temporary safehouse an apartment overlooking the ruins. Below, workers and volunteers moved like ants, rebuilding what the war had tried to erase. The silence felt unnatural after years of gunfire and sirens.Her reflection stared back at her in the glass tired glass, lips pressed in thought, bandages around her arms. The kind of look that didn't belong to the same woman who once fought through fire and betrayal.Romeo entered quietly, his shoulder still bandaged. He carried two mugs of coffee, the faint aroma of something almost normal cutting through the metalic scent of ash that clung to everything.

The world outside was quiet again but only in the way a battlefield falls silent after the final shot. Beneath that stillness, something was shifting. The air was thick with smoke and new beginnings, the kind that came only after blood had been spilled and truths had been unearthed.Jessica stood before the shattered window of the safehouse they had turned into their final base. Her reflection stared back eyes weary, heart bruised, but alive. Behind her, the remnants of their equipment hummed faintly, monitors flashing with encrypted maps of the Syndicate's remaining networks. Romeo entered quietly, the collar of his dark jacket dusted with ash. "They're regrouping in the East", he said. "The last few members. They're trying to rebuild".Jessica turned, her lips curving into something that wasn't quite a smile. "Then we finish what we started. No rebuilding. No mercy".Romeo leaned against the wall, watching her. "You've changed", he said softly.

The night was quiet too queit. The kind of silence that carried weight, the kind that came after chaos had burnt itself out and left nothing but truth in it's ashes. The moonlight filtered through the thin canvas of the tent, painting soft silver over Jessica's face as she sat beside Romeo, her head bowed, her fingers nervously tracing invisible patterns on his palm.Romeo didn't speak. He just watched her watched the woman who had once been fire and thunder, now trembling benath the fragile calm of a world finally at peace. The wind rustled outside, brushing against the tent's fabric like a whisper urging them to say what had long been unsaid."You ever think about how we ended up here?" Jessica finally asked, her voice small, hesitant. Romeo chuckled softly, though there was no humor in it. "Every day", he said. "But if you're asking whether I'd change any of it... i don't think i would".She lifted her gaze to him, startled. "Even with everything we lo

The following days unfolded like the slow uncoiling of a long-held breath. Each morning began with the rhythm of hammers striking metal, the murmur of voices planning, building, dreaming. The sound has replaced gunfire. The scent of fresh wood and smoke replaced the bitter tang of blood and ashes.Jessica woke before sunshine, always. She would stand at the edge of camp, watching the light spill across the horizon the same light she once feared she'd never see again. Every dawn reminded her that they survived something impossible. That they were still here.Romeo often joined her, his steps quiet behind her. Sometimes he brought coffee..... bitter, black, salvaged from old supplies and sometimes he brought nothing but silence. But his presence was constant, solid, grounding. "You're awake again before everyone", he murmured one morning, handing her a steaming tin cup.Jessica smiled faintly. "Old habits die hard."Maybe that's

The morning light crept gently over the horizon, touching the scared world like a hesitant blessing. The smoke of old battles had finally faded into mist, and the scent of fresh earth filled the air.... a rare, delicate smell of life.Jessica stood alone at the ridge overlooking what had once been a battlefield and was now a queit valley. From above, she could see tents, makeshift shelters, and fires burning faintly in the distance not for war this time, but for warmth, for cooking, for gathering. For the first time in what felt like centuries, she could hear hear the birds again. Not many, just a few, but their songs pierced the silence like tiny reminders that even after ruin, like always found a way.Her boots sank slightly into the damp ground. Beneath the soil lay ashes thr remains of countless yesterday, of pain, loss, and regret. Yet from that same ground, green shoots had begun to emerge. Fragile, defiant, beautiful.Behind her, footsteps