Chapter 26 The Hand That Bleeds
The coven doesn’t strike with fire.
They strike with certainty.
I feel it the moment I wake—the air too still, the bond unnaturally quiet, as if something has wrapped it in velvet and pressed down. Not severed. Not gone.
Muffled.
My heart stutters.
That’s never happened before.
I sit up sl...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Moon Chose Me First
2. Chapter 2 What I Was Sent to Do
3. Chapter 3 The Alpha’s Shadow
4. Chapter 4 The Weight of Watching
5. Chapter 5 The Pack Doesn’t Forget
6. Chapter 6 A King Under Pressure
7. Chapter 7 Close Enough to Bleed
8. Chapter 8 Scent of a Lie
9. Chapter 9 Three Nights
10. Chapter 10 The First Opportunity
11. Chapter 11 The Lie Tightens
12. Chapter 12 Pressure Points
13. Chapter 13 The Second Attempt
14. Chapter 14 The Weight of Silence
15. Chapter 15 Eve of the Blood Moon
16. Chapter 16 The Night That Chooses
17. Chapter 17 Fallout
18. Chapter 18 The Shape of War
19. Chapter 19 First Blood, Unanswered
20. Chapter 20 The Price of Refusal
21. Chapter 21 What Survives the Fire
22. Chapter 22 The Cost of Standing
23. Chapter 23 Lines Drawn in Ash
24. Chapter 24 Teeth Beneath the Smile
25. Chapter 25 When the World Pushes Back
26. Chapter 26 The Hand That Bleeds
27. Chapter 27 The Silence After
28. Chapter 28 What It Costs To Stay
29. Chapter 29 After the Breaking
30. Chapter 30 What Remains Unclaimed
31. Chapter 31 The Weight of Staying
32. Chapter 32 When Quiet Turns Sharp
33. Chapter 33 Standing in the Open
34. Chapter 34 The Space Between
35. Chapter 35 Fault Lines
36. Chapter 36 The Push That Pretends to Be Peace
37. Chapter 37 The Choice They Can’t Steal
38. Chapter 38 Where Pressure Breaks or Becomes Power
39. Chapter 39 The Summit’s Teeth
40. Chapter 40 What is Chosen in Full Light
41. Chapter 41 The Shape of After
42. Chapter 42 Pressure Finds Its Shape
43. Chapter 43 The Cost of Being Seen
44. Chapter 44 When the World Pushes Back
45. Chapter 45 The Daylight They Fear
46. Chapter 46 The Silence That Follows Fire
47. Chapter 47 What Comes After Witnesses
48. Chapter 48 The Price of Neutral Ground
49. Chapter 49 When Doubt is Weaponized
50. Chapter 50 The Inquiry Begins
51. Chapter 51 The Waiting Knife
52. Chapter 52 The Terms of Leaving
53. Chapter 53 The Shape of Absence
54. Chapter 54 The Weight of Daylight
55. Chapter 55 What Breaks When Pressure Fails
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