All Chapters of Dumped ,Because His Her Is Back : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

The morning was quieter than it had any right to be.The kind of quiet that pressed against his ribs, making it hard to breathe, hard to think, hard to pretend that the stillness was peace and not punishment.He sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the sunlight filtering through the curtains. The same light that used to spill across her hair, across her laughter, across mornings that felt easier even when nothing else was.The book lay where he left it last night.He had meant to return it weeks ago.He had meant a lot of things.His fingers brushed the spine, feeling the faint crease down the middle the mark she’d left when she used to fold it open and read half asleep beside him. He could almost hear her voice again, soft and uneven, stumbling on the same paragraph she loved too much to skip.He smiled, faintly.Then it hurt, immediately after.It was strange, how love could linger even when the people didn’t. How it could sit between things a mug on a counter, a word left unsen

Three days had passed.The book still sat on her nightstand, its spine now facing outward, as if watching her. She hadn’t moved it. She didn’t need to. It felt right there a witness to what was said, and what wasn’t.Life had begun to hum again, quietly but steadily. She went to work. She smiled at the right times. She even laughed a small, honest kind of laughter that didn’t feel borrowed. But underneath all that, there was a current she couldn’t name.Not sadness. Not longing. Just something unfinished.It happened that evening, almost by accident. She was scrolling absentmindedly, half-listening to music, when she stumbled upon a link a private writing page she recognized instantly. He had used it before, back when he used to post little reflections, thoughts that felt too heavy for conversations.The page was quiet now. Barely updated. But at the top, there it was a new post. Dated the same morning he had returned the book.Her heart skipped. For a second, she thought about cl

Mornings came softer now.Not easier just quieter.Amara had stopped checking her phone first thing. Stopped expecting messages that never came, calls that never would. Instead, she filled her mornings with sound the low hum of the kettle, the distant traffic, the scratch of her pen against paper. It was how she tricked herself into believing silence was a choice, not an absence.It had been months since she left him.And yet, his shadow still lingered not as pain anymore, but as something… unfinished.She’d moved to a smaller apartment overlooking the park. The view wasn’t spectacular, but it was hers. The windows leaked a little when it rained, and the walls carried echoes from neighbors arguing through thin plaster. But there was life here unpolished, uncurated, real.Her therapist once said healing isn’t about forgetting, it’s about making peace with what still hurts.Some days she almost believed that.She poured herself a cup of coffee, taking it out to the small balcony. Fro

Amara had stopped checking the mailbox weeks ago.There was something too final about seeing it empty, day after day like a quiet reminder that some words never arrive, or maybe that the ones that did had already said enough.But that morning, the wind carried the smell of something new. It was one of those rare days when the city felt gentle clouds thin enough for sunlight to flirt through, traffic just soft enough that you could hear your own heartbeat if you listened closely. She didn’t plan to check the mail. She was only passing by.And then, just there, stuck between bills and an old flyer, was an envelope. No return name. No printed label. Just her first name, written in a handwriting she knew too well careful, slightly slanted, like he was always trying to say more than the space allowed.Her breath caught.She didn’t open it right away. Not even when she got back to her apartment. Instead, she set it on the table beside her cup of coffee and stared at it while the steam cur

The gallery lights had long gone dim.The walls, once humming with voices and laughter, now stood quiet bare except for the final exhibit that hadn’t yet been taken down.Amara stayed behind, sleeves rolled to her elbows, carefully unhooking each frame. The soft hum of the air conditioner and the faint echo of her own footsteps were the only sounds.This was her favorite part the quiet after creation. The stillness that followed a storm of meaning.But tonight, the stillness felt different.Her phone buzzed on the table. A message.Leaving tomorrow. Thought I’d say goodbye properly. – L.She read it once. Then again.The words were polite, almost formal the kind you use when you’re trying to sound fine.She typed, Okay. When?The reply came instantly.Now. If you’re still at the gallery.Her fingers hovered over the keyboard. Then she put the phone down. No reply.Minutes later, she heard the door open behind her.He didn’t call her name just stepped in, quiet, respectful, like a