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As Via waited for Cassie at the café, she couldn't help but feel a sense of relief washed over her. It was comforting to know that she wasn't alone in this, that she had someone she could rely on, no matter what. As she sat there, trying to enjoy a cup of fruit tea, her mind raced with a thousand different thoughts and emotions. How did her life turn into a chaotic mess in just weeks? How would she deal with all the changes that happened so suddenly in her life?

She didn't want to see him too anyway. 'Liar' Her thoughts echoed but she ignored them and got up. She might as well arrange his stuff. She kept his jacket and made to lock his wardrobe when she saw an old book tucked away at the lowest part of the wardrobe. What was that? She was overwhelmed by curiousity and picked it up. It was dusty. She cleaned it up and opened it. It was a photo album! There were lots of photos in it. She saw photos of Lance when he was a baby.

she said, her voice deeper, like distant waves, "do you remember the fire?" He stopped, looked at the sun, then at the book. "I remember... a dream," he said. "A market, a girl who saved the stars. But it was just a dream, right?" June scanned the park. Under a tree, she spotted an old man in a white apron, holding a wooden spoon. He tipped his hat and smiled. Gabe. Alive. Real. June turned back to the book, opening to the last page. The list of the dead was gone. In its place, a new list—a list called "The Living."

The pages turned themselves, faster, a blur of images: Elena, five years old, watching Javier sign the loan, her tiny hand on his sleeve. Sofia, hiding chemo bags in the restaurant’s freezer, tears in her eyes. Marco, twelve, hacking the city’s traffic lights to keep the power on. Me, proposing by the East River, lying when I said no more wagers. The book laughed, a sound that wasn’t sound but pressure, a weight on my heart. The alley shifted. The rubble became the Hamptons mansion’s marble floor, the smoke the gala’s chandeliers, the ash the warehouse’s crater. We were inside the book, the pages walls, the words chains.

--- The twins stirred, tiny fingers curling against my shirt. Elian’s laughter drifted faintly from the hallway as he played with his toy blocks. The house felt alive again — messy, warm, loud in all the best ways. And somewhere between the chaos and the quiet, I realized something: Our life wasn’t perfect. It wasn’t calm. But it was ours. And that was enough. END OF CHAPTER 106

At the guesthouse, Terence woke with Wendy naked in his arms. Ryan was asleep on the cot beside them, his face slick with drool. This was supposed to be the perfect life he'd always dreamed of, and yet, he couldn't shake the unease gnawing at his heart. He thought back to two days ago, when I had come to tell him Ricky was missing. He felt something had slipped beyond his control, teetering on the brink of collapse. Just then, the warm, soft body in his arms began to stir, her fingers idly tracing his skin. When he met her glistening, inviting gaze, desire flared hot inside him.

he said. "It surprised me," Elian said. "When it arrived. I was expecting something — larger. A final scene with more architecture to it. More event." He paused. "But the novel insisted on the small thing. The kitchen. The light. The coffee. The person still asleep." He looked at his hands. "I think that's what staying actually teaches you. That the small thing is the whole thing." "The small thing is the whole thing," Dante said. "Yes," Elian said.

My grandmother's hand was really cold. So cold it sent a shiver down my spine. She went in closer toward me with a child-like wonder in her eyes. "Zack is coming back, right? I heard it on the phone. Is he giving me a surprise?" My heart tightened. It felt as if someone were squeezing it hard. Zack and I had grown up without our parents. We survived on scraps because our grandmother raised us by scavenging trash. She always said, "Once you two are old enough, I will finally get to enjoy my life."

I insisted. Silence fell between us. He looked back at the book. Then at me. Then back at the book again. “You’ve been reading it?” he asked. “Yes.” “How far?” “I don’t know… halfway, I think.” “And what is it about?” he asked. “It’s about a boy,” I said slowly. He didn’t interrupt. “They threw him into a well,” I continued. “Left him there to die.” Drake’s grip on the book tightened slightly. “He didn’t die,” I added.

The journey back from the Moon Light Pack was quiet….too quiet. Zoe sat in the passenger seat, her fingers lightly tracing the worn edges of the Book of Life resting in her lap. The road stretched endlessly ahead, but her mind was somewhere else entirely, lost in fragments, in whispers, in truths she wasn’t sure she was ready to face.