BOOK 3: Chapter 17: Day Four – His Door, Her Fall
On this particular day, Amanda knows—no, decides—that she has to take matters into her own hands. She cannot continue like this. Everything about it is spiraling, dangerously unhinged. This is the fourth day since Gregory left for his trip, and her reality has unraveled into something that feels more like a fever dream than a marriage. She must do something, anything, before the obsession devours her whole. Before it transforms into something so powerful, so uncontrollable, that even she can't stop it.
Because Gregory must never return to witness this—this indefensible collapse, this desecration of their home. She can’t let him walk through the door and find her like this: breathless, desperate, drowning in the pull of a boy who is suppos
