Chapter 57 The Price Paid in Red
The first shot took the streetlight.
Glass exploded overhead, raining down like shattered stars.
Lorenzo moved before the sound finished traveling muscle memory honed by decades of war. He dove, rolled behind the transport’s torn flank as rounds stitched sparks across asphalt. The rain turned copp...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 THE BARGAIN
2. Chapter 2 SIGNED IN BLOOD
3. Chapter 3 THE FIRST ESCAPE
4. Chapter 4 THE ENEMY’S HAND
5. Chapter 5 THE FIRST ORDER
6. Chapter 6 UNDER FIRE
7. Chapter 7 THE FACE OF BETRAYAL
8. Chapter 8 THE PRICE OF OBEDIENCE
9. Chapter 9 THE ESCAPE THAT WASN’T
10. Chapter 10 THE MAN WITH NO NAME
11. Chapter 11 THE NAME THAT SHOULD NOT EXIST
12. Chapter 12 The Night of the Hidden Mark
13. Chapter 13 Blood Oaths and Broken Lines
14. Chapter 14 The Collision of Fire and Shadow
15. Chapter 15 Into the Dark
16. Chapter 16 The Cost of Obedience
17. Chapter 17 Shadows From Before
18. Chapter 18 The man in the photograph
19. Chapter 19 What Hunts the King’s Weakness
20. Chapter 20 The Don’s War Begins
21. Chapter 21 The Line They Crossed
22. Chapter 22 The Monster at the Door
23. Chapter 23 Ten Seconds to Die
24. Chapter 24 The Betrayer in the Garden
25. Chapter 25 Choices That Kill
26. Chapter 26 The Howl in the Dark
27. Chapter 27 The Man Who Walks Through Fire
28. Chapter 28 The Woman Behind the Wires
29. Chapter 29 THE PRICE OF LOYALTY
30. Chapter 30 The Night the Masks Shattered
31. Chapter 31 The Night That Swallows
32. Chapter 32 The King Who Refuses to Fall
33. Chapter 33 The Man Who Refuses to Lose Her
34. Chapter 34 When the World Goes White
35. Chapter 35 Blood Oaths & Broken Lines
36. Chapter 36 The Exchange of Shadows
37. Chapter 37 The Edge of Desperation
38. Chapter 38 The Boy With the Trigger
39. Chapter 39 The Smoke Where Love Bleeds
40. Chapter 40 The fire that chooses her
41. Chapter 41 Ashes Know the Truth
42. Chapter 42 The Shape of Submission
43. Chapter 43 When Kings Bleed
44. Chapter 44 The Sound of a Leash Snapping
45. Chapter 45 What Breaks Before the Body
46. Chapter 46 If You Break, I Break With You
47. Chapter 47 The Price of Being Chosen
48. Chapter 48 What Survives the Fall
49. Chapter 49 What She Said
50. Chapter 50 The Shape of Betrayal
51. Chapter 51 Blood Is Not the Deepest Bond
52. Chapter 52 The Throne Is Built on Bodies
53. Chapter 53 Ashes Don’t Kneel
54. Chapter 54 A King in Chains
55. Chapter 55 The Woman Who Learns to Rule
56. Chapter 56 The Night the King Was Moved
57. Chapter 57 The Price Paid in Red
58. Chapter 58 The Crown Bleeds Both Hands
59. Chapter 59 The King After Loss
60. Chapter 60 The Shape of a Crown
61. Chapter 61 The Blood the Crown Demands
62. Chapter 62 What rises after the crown breaks
63. Chapter 63 When the Crown Bites Back
64. Chapter 64 The city bleeds for it's queen
65. Chapter 65 The Weight of a Crown
66. Chapter 66 The thing the crown unleashed
67. Chapter 67 Mercy Is a Blade
68. Chapter 68 The price of mercy
69. Chapter 69 Faulty lines
70. Chapter 70 The Price of Wearing Gold
71. Chapter 71 Echoe louder than war
72. Chapter 72 The Cost of Loving a King
73. Chapter 73 A Crown That Breaks Cities
74. Chapter 74 The price beyond blood
75. Chapter 75 What kneels,what breaks
76. Chapter 76 The line that bleeds
77. Chapter 77 Justice unbound
78. Chapter 78 Earned ,not given
79. Chapter 79 A blade bound to faith
80. Chapter 80 The word that breaks the world
81. Chapter 81 What freedom cost
82. Chapter 82 When the crown blinks
83. Chapter 83 Why kings don't ask permission
84. Chapter 84 Judgment without mercy
85. Chapter 85 A crown that breaths
86. Chapter 86 A vote that can kill a queen
87. Chapter 87 The fall of gods
88. Chapter 88 A queen without witnesses
89. Chapter 89 The price that answers back
90. Chapter 90 The throne unclaimed
91. Chapter 91 When the city chooses
92. Chapter 92 Where the fire find it’s end
93. Chapter 93 Where judgement demands a mirror
94. Chapter 94 Where power refuses to stay quiet
95. Chapter 95 Where trust is put on trial
96. Chapter 96 Where the past becomes a battlefield
97. Chapter 97 Blood is a public currency
98. Chapter 98 Ashes don’t forget
99. Chapter 99 The weight of the missing piece
100. Chapter 100 The law that bites back
101. Chapter 101 The rewrite of a new kingdom
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