suggestions

page 1
	She grabbed a coffee pot to refill a table's cup - change to patron's cup ? A table doesn't drink coffee

Page 5
	When their eyes met as she approached, there was no casual greeting from him. Instead, he spoke first. His voice...  - illogical
	
Page 7
	change in font size?
	2nd paragraph: the term "shift" is used in 2 meanings, might be confusing. "A part of her wanted to acknowledge the shift..." might be better to use "change" instead of "shift"
	
Page 10
	"And each time he responded as expected, it was like a thread pulling them closer, deeper into something she hadn't yet fully understood" - this sentence shifts from present time (pulling them closer) to past tense (fully understood)
	suggestion: replace "understood" with grasped, that might work better. 
	suggestion: place an extra comma (,) after deeper, which makes deeper have more relation to the pulling closer?
	
Observation:
	This is also the first time, the scene paints Layla wearing a Hijab. up till this point it could have been any kind of setting.

Chapter 5
	There seems to be a disconnect between chapters 4 and 5, almost as if chapter 5 (partially) takes place before chapter 4. 
	both in chapter 4 as in chapter 5, it tells about a long shift, whereas in chapter 4, ofter Zayn ordering, Layla goes back to order the dessert, in chapter 5 he's suddenly nursing a cup of tea at the end of the night.
	the disconnect comes from the unfinished scene in chapter 4 to a sudden narration of him drinking tea. Also him pushing forward the cup and "asking" for the tea is out of character in this phase of the story
	
Page 17
	"A part...pull back" there is a shift in POV in those sentences that doesn't make much sense. (first it's her POV, then suddenly it is "If he pushed") 

Page 18
	"He slid into his usual seat at the counter..." - Up till now Zayn always was seated in a booth [On page 27/chpter 10, he slips back into his usual booth]

General observation...
	Does ChatGPT has a thing for tracing fingers along rims or edges?

Page 31
	Noor is being mentioned by name, even before the name is mentioned by Zayn when greeting her. Her only referred to her as his Ex, no name was given yet.
	
Chapter 14
	The title is in 1st person view, although the chapter starts out with a 3rd person narrator
	suggestion: change "their" on line 1 into "our" - this fixes this.
	
Page 41 [Line 1]
	It might make a "smoother" sentence, looking at the conversation on page 40, to write "He too had replayed that night over and over,..." [Or something similar]
	as on page 40 you hear Noor recounting her memories about their last evening. and he does the same.

Page 43
	Zayn huffed a quiet laugh "I know". He shot Layla a final grin before sauntering off, leaving Zayn alone with her once more. - Disconnect between sentences. It reads as if Zayn gives te grin and saunters off... change "He" to "Malachi"
	to reconnect the sentences logically again

obersvation:
	I have a feeling the word "settled" is used quite often, at least often enough for me to become noticable. [settle or one of the other versions (settled, settling, etc) is used 58 times in 55 pages.

Page 46/47
	The little flower sticker is being put in the corner of the journal page twice (once on each page)

Page 48/49
	The discussion between Zayn and Rayhan seems to happen twice, with exactly the same words?

Page 51 [2nd paragraph]
	have a look at how the paragraph flows. the word "pull" is used twice, in different meanings.
	The 2nd time "he still pulled it out.." makes you wonder if he was hesitating/contemplating not giving his wallet, it doesn't read as such in the pargraph though