All Chapters of When Love Wasn’t Part Of The Plan : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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Chapter Eleven

SERAFINA There was something different about the way Amia knocked. Like her knuckles didn’t actually want to make contact. Three soft taps — ‘Click. Click. Click.’ each one slower than the last, like she kept changing her mind between them. I opened the door anyway. And there she was. Hair tied a little too neatly. Not a single strand out of place. Even her baby hairs had been gelled down into submission, as if appearance could somehow compensate for betrayal. Her purse strap was clenched in both fists, tight enough to leave red marks on her fingers. Like she was holding on to the last thread of courage she had — or maybe trying to stop her hands from shaking. She didn’t smile. Which was- kinda funny, considering Amia always smiled. Even during arguments. Especially during lies. I didn’t move. I didn’t say a damn thing either. I just stepped aside, quietly. Not an invitation. Just an allowance. She walked in, careful and clipped, and stopped two steps past the door.

Last Updated : 2025-07-23

Chapter Twelve

SERAFINA That I had finally realized how much he already knew. Sort of. He wasn’t coming down the stairs. He was already there. Still and silent. Like the hallway was his living room and I was the one trespassing. I didn’t ask him why he was standing there. Hell, I didn’t need to. Because his posture said everything. Like he’d just come down, caught the end of that conversation — or maybe just enough of it to decide staying silent was the smarter move. He didn’t look curious. Didn’t look mad either. Just… still. Like the hallway was his living room and I was the one trespassing. I didn’t give him the reaction he wanted. Or maybe I did. Honestly, I didn’t care. I walked past him, up the stairs, back stiff like I hadn’t just been sucker-punched by my own sister in designer heels. He didn’t say a word. Didn’t follow me. Which felt somehow worse. Upstairs, I locked my door. Out of habit, not fear. Then I did what I always do when I’m about to crash out—I touched

Last Updated : 2025-07-25

Chapter Thirteen

SERAFINAC-A-I-U—No.Backspace.C-A-I-U-S.I stared at it like it might do something. Like the letters would peel themselves off the screen and rearrange into an answer. A confession. A warning.One minute I was at the event. The next, I was home.I think Dorian drove. If he said anything, I didn’t hear it.My shoes were off. Dress crumpled on the floor like I’d fought with it.I didn’t even remember walking through the door.As for “Caius”?Google gave me nothing. Just mythological scraps, a dead bishop, and some dusty legal reference from a journal that looked like it hadn’t been touched since dial-up.Still, the itch didn’t stop.The name felt wrong. Too smooth on the tongue. Too easy to lie with.Something about the name felt wrong. Like hearing a lie spoken too easily. Like déjà vu from a dream I never remembered having.I locked the phone and set it beside me on the bed, screen down like that might quiet it. It didn’t.The room felt too still. Too… contained. Like someone had s

Last Updated : 2025-07-25

Chapter Fourteen

SERAFINA The door locked from the inside. Click! I knew Dorian was still here. He was… inside, right? I don’t know why that settled in my chest like a weight I hadn’t agreed to carry. The apartment went completely still again. Dorian hadn’t said a word since we folded laundry like we were on the cover of some passive-aggressive newlywed blog. Not a sound or even a glance. Just hands brushing for half a second too long, then him walking out. But that click That damn lock clicking ..reminded me that whatever space I thought I had to breathe… wasn’t mine anymore. Ugh. Why’s peace suddenly so expensive? My pulse stalled, quickened, then stalled again. Like even it didn’t know what the hell to do with this moment. I stayed where I was, hunched on the bed-like sofa on the living room floor, crumpled shirt still in my lap like I’d forgotten what hands were meant for. One thread of sunlight had crept across the rug while I sat there doing absolutely nothing but trying not to p

Last Updated : 2025-07-27

Chapter Fifteen

SERAFINA “I don’t?” “No,” he said, voice lower now. “Because if I give it to you, you can’t un-know it. And once you know what this shit is all about—none of this goes back to normal.” I almost laughed. “Normal?” His face was expressionless. Normal was the farthest thing from whatever was going on. He just walked past me, down the hallway like I hadn’t just found a piece of his past tucked inside my mother’s room. I followed him, shutting my moms door closed. From behind, every step of his screamed Cool Guy™ energy— shoulders squared, spine straight, like his back had never met a bad decision. So obviously, I mimicked him. One foot out, one forward. Hips… unnecessarily committed. Swish. Swosh. Swish. Swosh. I was a menace, a runway model with unresolved trust issues. If that was Nadine’s definition of a thunderstorm, I’m definitely flattered. I half-expected wind machines to show up and blow his shirt open in slow motion. Okay, okay—not technically expected. More l

Last Updated : 2025-07-27

Chapter Sixteen

DORIAN “I asked what you were doing. Hm? Can’t talk anymore princess?” She didn’t even blink. Just sat there—cross-legged, cool, folder still half-open like she wasn’t holding the beginning of the end in her lap. Her eyes glared up once. Barely. Just enough to clock me standing in the hallway like I’d been waiting for her to find it. Maybe I had. But she didn’t scramble. Didn’t stammer or hide the file like she was caught mid-theft. She just refolded the card. Like she already knew what it said would matter more than anything I was about to. “You were in the closet?” I asked. “Relax,” she said. “I didn’t realize I needed clearance to clean MY house.” The sarcasm was familiar, but her tone? Off. She sounded calm. The kind of calm that only meant one thing—she wasn’t confused. She was certain. And I was already behind. I stepped in, leaned one hand against the doorframe. Her thumb was still grazing the edge of the card like it burned, but she wasn’t ready to drop it. “I

Last Updated : 2025-07-28

Chapter Seventeen

DorianI wouldn’t blame her for walking away.But I’d try my possible best to make sure she didn’t.My phone buzzed again.Amia.Amia.Amia.I didn’t answer it. I just let her name flash once, then fade like it never belonged there to begin with.Of course.She always knew how to pick the perfect time — right when my blood started cooling and the silence started thinking for itself.I stared at the phone like it owed me more than a name.I didn’t move at first.Because calls like that don’t come with answers. Just impact. And this one? This wasn’t an accident. This was a fracture waiting to finish what it started.Upstairs—I heard movement.It wasn’t a creak or a door slam, just soft and rhythmic pacing. I didn’t need to see her. Sera wasn’t pacing because of anything random.She was definitely pacing because of me.So I slid the phone into my palm and walked out the back entrance.I stood there, in the dark, phone still in my hand like it might catch fire.Inside, through the kitch

Last Updated : 2025-07-29

Chapter Eighteen

DORIANI was already out the door before I even processed the sound.I didn’t call her name. I wasn't even thinking, I just ran.Turned the corner— and there she was.On the floor.One leg stretched out awkwardly.Her fingers wrapped tight around her foot like she could trap the pain before it leaked out again.She didn’t see me at first. Her head was bowed, hair in her face, lips slightly parted like she’d been mid-cuss when I got there.“What happened?” I dropped to my knees without thinking.She flinched—then looked up. “Nothing,” she snapped. “Just this stupid hallway. I bumped my toe.”Right.Totally casual. Like she hadn’t just screamed loud enough to rattle the fucking walls.“You’re so clumsy,” I let out in affirmation.She reached up and pouted her lips. No idea why. Did I lie?I didn’t move for a second, I didn’t say anything either. I just stared at her.Then I reached out. My hand wrapped gently around her ankle, fingers brushing over the spot where she was holding. Her s

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Chapter Nineteen

DORIANAnd when she does? It wasn’t going to be a conversation, it would be a reckoning.I literally just stood there like a dumbo, trying my best not to breathe too loud. I didn’t lean closer like some half-curious voyeur standing behind a door he didn’t have the right to open.I just angled my spine back, fingers loose at my side, pretending stillness could somehow make me invisible to her.Because the way she was speaking?That wasn’t someone trying to discover anything.That was someone confirming what she already suspected.Her voice was low, even and unbothered. Like she knew the walls could hear her and didn’t give a damn if they did.The name she mentioned on that call?It was mine.Caius.Quiet and careful. Like she’d swallowed it a dozen times before now and this was the first time she let it out without choking on it.I closed my eyes to ease the pressure.But my chest tightened, the kind of tight that doesn’t ease up just because you tell it to.Because that name… it was

Last Updated : 2025-07-29

Chapter Twenty

DORIAN“Do I look sick to you, dear loving husband?” She shot at me, almost immediately.“Should I be honest?”“Not. Funny. Leave me alone.”“Hmm. Russell didn’t check in? Don’t you have that um… clearance with Vogue?”She didn’t say anything in reply. I didn’t blame her regardless.I couldn’t imagine what stress was going through her head.I didn’t ask her what she saw.Neither did I ask if she read all of it again or just enough to know she’d never look at me the same way again.Because the way she was holding that folder told me everything.She was still sitting on the couch. Same position, same cold look of stillness that didn’t feel passive—it felt exact. She didn’t look up at me, she didn’t move away either.Which, honestly, was worse.Because Serafina always moved when she was angry. She shouted, pushed, slammed things. Sera was many things—but unreadable wasn’t one of them. She had patterns, and I’d memorized every single oneI sat across from her. I needed to see her face.B

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