TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One – The Quiet Before Him
Chapter Two – Silhouettes in Graphite
Chapter Three – A Gallery of Glances
Chapter Four – Words We Never Said
Chapter Five – Tea and Thunderstorms
Chapter Six – Sketches of Almost
Chapter Seven – Distance With Teeth
Chapter Eight – Lost Pages and Late Trains
Chapter Nine – A Single Unsent Letter
Chapter Ten – The Storm He Didn't Outrun
Chapter Eleven – The Weight of Empty Rooms
Chapter Twelve – Coffee at Midnight
Chapter Thirteen – Love Isn’t Linear
Chapter Fourteen – Shadows and Showings
Chapter Fifteen – The Window Stayed Open
Chapter Sixteen – In the Silence, I Drew You
Chapter Seventeen – Where Regret Breathes
Chapter Eighteen – The Night I Almost Called
Chapter Nineteen – What the Canvas Revealed
Chapter Twenty – Ghosts Don’t Knock Twice
Chapter Twenty-One – The Book You Didn’t Sign
Chapter Twenty-Two – Painting With a Tremble
Chapter Twenty-Three – Memory in Reverse
Chapter Twenty-Four – The Letter I Buried
Chapter Twenty-Five – Things I Wish You Never Read
Chapter Twenty-Six – The Man in My Sketches
Chapter Twenty-Seven – I Never Left the Dock
Chapter Twenty-Eight – He Was Still in the Ink
Chapter Twenty-Nine – What You Thought You Ruined
Chapter Thirty – Coming Undone Again
Chapter Thirty-One – The Night Before Opening
Chapter Thirty-Two – The Canvas of Us
Chapter Thirty-Three – He Walked Through the Door
Chapter Thirty-Four – What We Don’t Say Aloud
Chapter Thirty-Five – His Name, My Pulse
Chapter Thirty-Six – Everything Stopped
Chapter Thirty-Seven – Standing Still With You
Chapter Thirty-Eight – The Art Show
Chapter Thirty-Nine – I Loved Him Through the Silence
Chapter Forty – And I Love Him Through the Storm
Chapter Forty-One – He Came Back
Chapter Forty-Two – We Don’t Kiss Yet
Chapter Forty-Three – The Heart We Stitched
Chapter Forty-Four – I Would Choose You Again
Chapter Forty-Five – We Made It
Chapter Forty-Six – I Was Always Swimming To You
Chapter Forty-Seven – Morning, Still
Chapter Forty-Eight – The Final Piece
Chapter Forty-Nine – The Reunion
Chapter Fifty – Home Is a Person
Epilogue – Keys, Boats, and the Rest of Our Lives