CHAPTER 21

I bought the notebook the next morning.Not the blue one. That one stayed locked in the drawer like evidence. This was new — black cover, thick pages, nothing written on the outside. I paid cash in a stationery shop three districts away from the tower and took the long way home.Seiberstin’s warning sat in my head like a stone.*If you keep changing the small things, the big catastrophe will arrive early.*I had spent three weeks treating the original future like a map. Cross off one betrayal. Block one asset. Correct one conversation. I thought if I erased enough of the old path the ending would simply become impossible.He had looked at me on that roof like I was a child playing with matches in a room already filled with gas.I sat at the desk, opened the black notebook to the first page, and wrote the date at the top.Then I began.**Change 1 — Refused Chloe’s car after the hospital.** **Expected result:** Minor. Delay her access to my immediate recovery. **Actual result:** Ano

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CHAPTER 22

Chloe was waiting in my apartment when I came home.She had a key. Of course she did. I had given it to her years ago and never taken it back. In the original timeline that key had become one more small door she walked through whenever she wanted access to my life.Tonight she sat on the edge of the sofa in a cream sweater, legs crossed, a paper bag from my favorite bakery on the table in front of her. The smell of warm pastry filled the room. She looked up when I opened the door and smiled the soft, worried smile she used when she wanted to seem harmless.“You didn’t answer my last three messages,” she said. “I got concerned.”I closed the door behind me and set my bag down. “I was working.”“You’re always working now.” She patted the cushion beside her. “Sit. I brought the almond ones you like.”I didn’t sit beside her. I took the armchair across from the sofa and kept my coat on.Chloe’s smile didn’t falter, but her eyes noted the distance.“You’re angry with me,” she said gently.

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