All Chapters of Her Only Exception: Chapter 121 - Chapter 127

The morning light was soft through the penthouse windows when Andrea woke up with her hand still holding Henry's. She had fallen asleep on the couch sometime after midnight, refusing to leave him alone, afraid that if she let go he might disappear again.She looked at Henry's face while he slept. The anger from last night had softened slightly but it hadn't gone away. It was still there, sitting heavy in her chest.Henry stirred. His eyes opened slowly and for a moment he looked confused, like he was trying to remember where he was and how he got there. Then his expression shifted as the memories came back in blurs. The bar. The drinking. The darkness of the night.He looked at Andrea and his stomach dropped. She was still here."I'm sorry," he said immediately, his voice rough from sleep and alcohol."Go shower," Andrea said quietly. "We'll talk after."He nodded and went upstairs without arguing.While the water ran in the bathroom Andrea sat in the kitchen with a cup of coffee she

Henry came home to an empty penthouse. The silence greeted him before anything else.He stood in the kitchen looking at the space where Andrea had been sitting this morning. He waited, thinking maybe she would come home soon. Maybe she would walk through that door and they could talk.But hours passed and she didn't come home.He didn’t go to work, just tried to work at home. He sat at the dining table with his laptop but he couldn't focus on anything. His mind kept circling back to this morning, to Andrea's face, to her words about needing time. To the weight of everything that had happened.He checked his phone but there were no messages from her. He thought about calling but decided against it. She had asked for space and he was going to respect that. After all he was the one that hadn’t listened to her in the first place. If he hadn’t defended Serena all this time against Andrea, maybe they wouldn’t in this situation.********Meanwhile at Crestview, Andrea finished work and sat a

Andrea fell asleep on Mindy's couch while waiting for her to come back from her date.When Mindy arrived home late that night, she found Andrea curled up on the cushions, her breathing deep and even. Mindy covered her with a blanket and helped her move to the bedroom so she could sleep properly.In the morning Andrea woke up in Mindy's bed with the weight of everything pressing down on her again.She lay there for a while, staring at the ceiling, thinking about going home. Thinking about facing Henry. The thought made her chest tight.Mindy came in with coffee and sat on the edge of the bed."You know, you can't keep running away forever," Mindy said gently. "You need to go home and talk to Henry. Actually talk to him. About everything."Andrea wrapped her hands around the coffee mug. "What if he's angry with me for staying out all night?""He's not angry," Mindy said. "He's worried sick. He kept blowing up my phone and Marcus’s phone the whole of last night. We had to turn off out ph