Chapter 9 Blood Lies
The building did not announce itself.
It crouched between two renovated office towers in downtown Chicago, a relic that time had overlooked out of politeness or fear. Twelve stories of soot-stained limestone, its windows narrow and uneven, many permanently dark. The original brass signage above the...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Wedding Pact
2. Chapter 2 Roses and Bullets
3. Chapter 3 Common Ground
4. Chapter 4 The Captive
5. Chapter 5 Deal with the Devil
6. Chapter 6 Beyond the Dark 
7. Chapter 7 Tension of the Mind
8. Chapter 8 Fire and Confession
9. Chapter 9 Blood Lies
10. Chapter 10 Trouble!
11. Chapter 11 Sins of the Fathers
12. Chapter 12 Ledger of the Dead
13. Chapter 13 Silence and Sanctuary
14. Chapter 14 Strategems and Terror
15. Chapter 15 The Weakest Door
16. Chapter 16 Borrowed Ground
17. Chapter 17 Secrets in Plain Sight
18. Chapter 18 The Accelerated Clock
19. Chapter 19 Prelude to Dawn
20. Chapter 20 Claims and Consequences
21. Chapter 21 The Subtle Prison
22. Chapter 22 Allies in the Dark
23. Chapter 23 Achilles Heel
24. Chapter 24 Lines in the Sand
25. Chapter 25 Fault Lines
26. Chapter 26 Cost of Steel
27. Chapter 27 Blood in the Foundation
28. Chapter 28 Painful Promises
29. Chapter 29 Tranquility
30. Chapter 30 Quite Before Dawn
31. Chapter 31 Prize for a Prize
32. Chapter 32 For the Council
33. Chapter 33 The Blast Zone
34. Chapter 34 The Devil's Timetable
35. Chapter 35 The Offer
36. Chapter 36 The Heart's Gambit
37. Chapter 37 The Promotion
38. Chapter 38 Crown of Thorns
39. Chapter 39 Weight of the Blood
40. Chapter 40 Architect
41. Chapter 41 Long Tread
42. Chapter 42 Return of the King
43. Chapter 43 In the Sanctuary
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