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• Family
• Friendship
• HappyEnding
• Healing
• Lost memory
• painful love
• Sweet
• Sweet love

Raelynn Kinsley was supposed to get married. It was meant to be the happiest day of her life. Instead, she walked out of her wedding and into a hospital room — Room 405 — where Kayden Greyson, her best friend, lay silent, trapped in a coma after a devastating accident. As days blur into weeks, Raelynn loses pieces of herself. Confrontation, realisation and quiet acceptance are what keep her standing. Bit by bit, she begins to reclaim her strength — rebuilding the parts of her that cracked along the way. Now, she keeps vigil at his bedside — reading to him, speaking softly into the stillness, holding onto a hope that feels as fragile as breath. Then, one quiet afternoon, Kayden opens his eyes. But he doesn't remember her. Now, caught between past and present, memory and loss, Raelynn must decide if love is something that survives forgetting — or something she’ll have to help him find all over again, one heartbeat at a time. Spanning hospital rooms, college parks, and a quiet garden where time bends around pain, The Stillness Between Heartbeats is a tender story about the quiet love, memory and the long wait for a second chance.

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  Atiqah Zainuddin II

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  LansanganJulexia

  this is so pretty story!

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  dolapoDavid

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  Eve Cruz

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  thank you

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• Total: 50

• Chapter 1 Where He Stays

  A car rolled to a stop in an empty parking space, the engine falling quiet. Moments later, a young w

• Chapter 2 The Promise Unkept

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  Raelynn waited for the chapel doors to open, her heart pounding

• Chapter 3 The Hollow Between

  The world came back slowly — muted, distant, heavy.
  Raelynn stirred on the narrow cot beside th

• Chapter 4 Where It Hurts Most

  Raelynn sat at the kitchen table, hands wrapped around a mug of now-cold tea. The house was quiet, s

• Chapter 5 The Quiet Always Meant Something

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  From a distance, Raelynn spotted a familiar silhouette beneath the

• Chapter 6 The Things We Left Unsaid

  She needed air.
  The hospital walls had started to feel too tight again, like they were pressing in fr

• Chapter 7 The Shape of Waiting

  The sound of birds chirping was the first thing she registered in her half-awake state — soft and rh

• Chapter 8 The Weight Between Worlds

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  “—99! Hurry!”
  Muffled.
  That was what he realised as he

• Chapter 9 The Shape After

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  She was frantic in her search.
  Looking beneath the benches, a

• Chapter 10 The First Light

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  “You have everything?” 
  “Yeah, Maman…” Kayden answered as he

• Chapter 11 Somewhere Between

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  There was a knock at the door.
  Both Kayden and Raelynn turned

• Chapter 12 Unfolding Quietly

  The morning light filtered through soft beige curtains, casting a warm glow over the pale blue walls

• Chapter 13 Through the Lens

  “Sometimes the past doesn't come back all at once — 
  it returns in fragments tuck

• Chapter 14 Still Here

  Ding.
  Another notification sound came from his phone — sharp and sudden, causing Kayden to jolt back

• Chapter 15 Unbound

  It was the start of a new week, and Kayden sat comfortably in the passenger seat of Richard’s silver

• Chapter 16 A Flicker Beneath

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  The air was thick with the deep, rich aroma of herbs and the warm,

• Chapter 17 Piece By Piece

  "Every step forward is a fragment of who he was,
  And who he’s becoming."
  —

• Chapter 18 Between The Tremors

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  The low hum of air conditioning could be heard throughout the place — a st

• Chapter 19 Where The Rain Remembers

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  It was a cold night.
  He was sitting in his bed, half of his b

• Chapter 20 A Steadier Morning

  The first ray of light peeked behind the curtain.
  Kayden, already finished with his morning routine —

• Chapter 21 Somebody Elseʼs Light

  The road wasn’t that busy.
  Kayden sat in the passenger seat with Raelynn at the wheel as she drove hi

• Chapter 22 Someone Elseʼs Light

  The first time Kayden mentioned his therapy session — during the first week of his recovery — it was

• Chapter 23 Before It Slips Away

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  The call had started the way it always did — everyone must be free

• Chapter 24 Speaking His Language

  “I thought I’d beaten you here today, but it seems you still came in early, huh…” Becca’s voice carr

• Chapter 25 Lines Between Us

  “You did well with the three-kilo one,” Becca said, standing over him as she casually swapped the

• Chapter 26 The Soft Ache Of Almost

  The glass door clicked softly behind him as he left the physiotherapy room. Kayden could still see B

• Chapter 27 Gravity Between Us

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  It was a simple text — the one that she’d sent.
  Me: You u

• Chapter 28 The Beginning Of Return

  “Every beginning feels small,
  Until you realise it is the one that guides you hom

• Chapter 29 Memoirs Of Week Three

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  The sound of footsteps on the treadmill, weights clinking as they w

• Chapter 30 In The Quiet Of Us

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  “Becca, can I ask you something?”
  “Mmm, sure.”
  They had

• Chapter 31 The World We Knew

  “Yeah, I already told you earlier…” Raelynn sighed into the phone. Her father’s voice came faintly t

• Chapter 32 What She Didn’t Ask

  The car merged into traffic, the grey-walled clinic — Willowgrove Rehabilitation Centre — shrinking

• Chapter 33 What He Wouldn’t Share

  “Wait a minute,” Mace said. “What do you mean, writing and drawing?” His eyes widened in anticipatio

• Chapter 34 Where She Stood

  “Sorry. I think I’m going to turn in early,” Kayden’s voice was calm, his expression closed off — le

• Chapter 35 The Aisle Without Her

  She didn’t know how long she had been staring.
  Her room was dark, save for the faded warmth of street

• Chapter 36 What Settles In Silence

  Raelynn woke, bit by bit.
  No sudden gasp. No jolt of panic.
  The blurriness in her vision dissolved as

• Chapter 37 What Stirs Beneath Silence

  It was the next day — morning, to be exact.
  Kayden was getting ready in his room. He pulled a black s

• Chapter 38 What Silence Couldn’t Hide

  The morning light streamed through the glass panel, painting the room in warm gold. Kayden stood sti

• Chapter 39 From Her Side

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  Bzzt… Bzzt… Bzzt…
  The vibration pulled her from sleep.
  

• Chapter 40 This Doesn’t Feel Professional

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  Becca had laid Joanne on the cot before informing the nurses that h

• Chapter 41 Both Of Us

  The car pulled to a stop at the red light.
  Richard hummed along softly to the song playing on the rad

• Chapter 42 Holding On

  Ding-a-ling.
  The small bell hanging above the door chimed as it opened. The noise from outside rushed

• Chapter 43 What Remained Unspoken

  “What are you going to do now?”
  Micah’s words rang in her ears.
  Raelynn remained silent.
  She sta

• Chapter 44 The Quiet Care

  “Oh, is that you, Ms Kinsley?”
  A sweet voice called out her name.
  Raelynn’s body went still.
  

• Chapter 45 Seen

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  “Hey, you okay?”
  Becca’s voice sounded alarmed.
  Kayden

• Chapter 46 The Things He Keeps

  “That doesn’t look right,” Kayden said as he looked over the drawing he had sketched. His head tilte

• Chapter 47 Something Warm

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  “That smells good,” Francesca said, peering over Kayden’s shoulder

• Chapter 48 Something More

  “Okay…” Becca muttered as she stirred the sauce she made in the pot.
  “It looks good,” she said, openi

• Chapter 49 Something Close

  “I like him.”
  —
  “That’s it for today,” Becca’s voice rang in the room.
  The ball left a muted thu

• Chapter 50 The Life I Chose

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  Knock. Knock.
  Raelynn looked up from her book. She glanced at