Alle Kapitel von He had always been mine : Kapitel 181 – Kapitel 182

KILLIAN POV The series sold. The money landed. For two weeks it sat in the account like something that did not know who it belonged to.Maya was the one who named it.It was a Sunday morning in late summer, the kind of heat that made the windows stick and the air feel thick before noon. Leigh had been collected by Auntie for the park and a long afternoon so Maya and I could “talk about the budget”—the phrase Maya had used at breakfast, light enough that Leigh only asked if budget meant ice cream later. I had said maybe. Maya had not smiled. After the door closed behind them the apartment held a silence that was not the old two a.m. silence. It was the silence of a conversation that had been waiting under the floorboards for months and had finally been given a time of day.Maya stood at the counter with her back to me, pouring coffee neither of us was going to drink. She set the pot down. She did not turn around when she spoke.“I can’t keep building a life on top of a ghost who buys