Chapter 53 The Night I Asked Him to Let Me Go
Lyra falls asleep with frosting in her hair.
Not from cake this time—just from insisting on “midnight snack” and managing to dip her fingers where they didn’t belong.
She is one year and seven months old now.
Sturdy.
Clear-voiced.
Certain.
She demanded a story.
Demanded both of us.
“Both,” s...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Night Everything Changed
2. Chapter 2 An Invitation Written in Shadow
3. Chapter 3 The Truth in My Veins
4. Chapter 4 What the Night Notices
5. Chapter 5 The Man in the Silver Ring
6. Chapter 6 When the Door Doesn’t Open
7. Chapter 7 The Claim
8. Chapter 8 Awakening
9. Chapter 9 The Choice That Changes Everything
10. Chapter 10 The First Sign
11. Chapter 11 The Second Heartbeat
12. Chapter 12 The World That Watches
13. Chapter 13 The Tower
14. Chapter 14 Bloodlines
15. Chapter 15 The First Threat
16. Chapter 16 The Line We Drew
17. Chapter 17 The Gathering
18. Chapter 18 The Blood That Answers
19. Chapter 19 What We Become
20. Chapter 20 The Night That Chose Us
21. Chapter 21 The Cost of Hesitation
22. Chapter 22 The Offer
23. Chapter 23 What They Cannot Name
24. Chapter 24 The First Movement
25. Chapter 25 What They Fear Most
26. Chapter 26 The Sound of a Name
27. Chapter 27 The First Contraction
28. Chapter 28 The Night That Bowed
29. Chapter 29 What Comes After
30. Chapter 30 His Forever
31. Chapter 31 The Original
32. Chapter 32 Becoming Ordinary
33. Chapter 33 The Balance of Blood
34. Chapter 34 A World She Will Walk
35. Chapter 35 The Promise of Tomorrow
36. Chapter 36 First Word
37. Chapter 37 First Steps
38. Chapter 38 What She Inherits
39. Chapter 39 When the World Knocks
40. Chapter 40 The First Fracture
41. Chapter 41 What She Chooses
42. Chapter 42 The Gathering Without Fear
43. Chapter 43 The Night She Chose Me
44. Chapter 44 The First Time She Stood Between Them
45. Chapter 45 The Question She Was Never Supposed to Ask
46. Chapter 46 The Night She Defended Herself
47. Chapter 47 The Future in Her Eyes
48. Chapter 48 The Day I Realized She Would Outlive Me
49. Chapter 49 The Night We Spoke of Forever
50. Chapter 50 The Year She Turned One
51. Chapter 51 The First Lie We Refused to Tell
52. Chapter 52 The Day She Chose Mercy
53. Chapter 53 The Night I Asked Him to Let Me Go
54. Chapter 54 The Last Thing I Wanted Her to Fear
55. Chapter 55 The Promise We Leave Her With
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