Chapter Nineteen – The Weight of Blood
The letter sat unopened on the table, its wax seal still whole, the sigil pressed deep into the parchment like a bruise that wouldn’t fade. I stared at it without moving. Not because I was afraid to open it, but because I already knew, deep in the marrow of my bones, that whatever lay inside was jus...
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Chapters
1. Chapter One – Three Jobs and No Future
2. Chapter Two – Blood on the Contract
3. Chapter Three – “Lot Thirty-One”
4. Chapter Four – The Brothers
5. Chapter Five – The Ride
6. Chapter Six – The Father
7. Chapter Seven – Settling the Dust
8. Chapter Eight – The Second Summons
9. Chapter Nine – Unread Pages
10. Chapter Ten – Obedience and Observation
11. Chapter Eleven – Masks and Mirrors
12. Chapter Twelve – The Dinner Table, Part 1
13. Chapter Thirteen – The Dinner Table, Part II
14. Chapter Fourteen – Ash and Thorns
15. Chapter Fifteen – The Sleeping Branch
16. Chapter Sixteen – Faultlines in Silence
17. Chapter Seventeen – Lines That Blur
18. Chapter Eighteen – The Name Buried in Ash
19. Chapter Nineteen – The Weight of Blood
20. Chapter Twenty – The Woman They Sent For
21. Chapter Twenty-One – By Invitation or Fire
22. Chapter Twenty-Two – What Cain Remembers
23. Chapter Twenty-Three – Ink and Intention
24. Chapter Twenty-Four – “The Third Path”
25. Chapter Twenty-Five Begin With Fire
26. Chapter Twenty-Six – Every Door Closed
27. Chapter Twenty-Seven – First Flame
28. Chapter Twenty-Eight –Lines We Cross
29. Chapter Twenty-Nine – Terms of Power
30. Chapter Thirty –The Vault Below
31. Chapter Thirty-One – Blood Knows the Way
32. Chapter Thirty-Two – What Remains
33. Chapter Thirty-Three – Something Has Shifted
34. Chapter Thirty-Four –Knock at the Door
35. Chapter Thirty-Five –The Message Sent
36. Chapter Thirty-Six –Three May Pass
37. Chapter Thirty-Seven –What They Already Know
38. Chapter Thirty-Eight –Uninvited Ties
39. Chapter Thirty-Nine –Root and Flame
40. Chapter Forty – The Edge of Dream
41. Chapter Forty-One –Woven Memory
42. Chapter Forty-Two –Unspoken, Remembered
43. Chapter Forty-Three –The Path She Left Behind
44. Chapter Forty-Four –The Price of Becoming
45. Chapter Forty-Five –The Second Layer
46. Chapter Forty-Six – What She Sealed Away
47. Chapter 47: Tethered Perception
48. Chapter 48- A Study in Firelight
49. Chapter 49: Summoned
50. Chapter 50 – The Council Hall
51. Chapter 51 – Aftermath
52. Chapter 52 A Kiss in the Quiet
53. Chapter 53- Cain’s Calling Card
54. Chapter 54- – Breaking the Seal
55. Chapter 55 – First Intimate Moment
56. Chapter 56 – What the Memory Showed
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