The Third Cut
Rina taped butcher paper to the wall and drew three circles: ORTEGA, WESTIN, JULIUS. Arrows connected them until it looked like a transit map.
“Third cut hits Julius,” she said. “We use his voice.”
“Confession?” Damien asked.
“Command,” I said. “Make him push a button he can’t explain.”
“SCY...
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Chapters
1. Dead Girls Walk Quietly
2. Familiar Eyes
3. The Gala Invitation
4. The Dead Don’t Collapse
5. The Wolf at Her Door
6. Ghosts Don’t Knock Twice
7. The First Cut
8. The Leak
9. Burn Notice
10. Into the Lion’s Mouth
11. The Black Key
12. The First Name
13. The Architect
14. Control-Alt-Delete
15. Knock, Knock
16. The Line in the Sand
17. Trigger Warning
18. The Root of All Rot
19. Aftershocks
20. The Ones Who Stayed Clean
21. The Trigger Word
22. The Antibody Protocol
23. Broadcast the Blood
24. The Castle with No Mirrors
25. The Black Echo
26. The Factory of Ghosts
27. The Ghost Wearing My Skin
28. The Mind That Shouldn’t Remember
29. Beneath the Ice, They Wait
30. The Human Trigger
31. The Calm That Lies
32. One Name, Two Graves
33. Chapter Thirty-Three
34. The Edge of the Frame
35. The Night We Stop Waiting
36. Ghosts Don’t Sleep
37. Terms the Dead won't Take
38. Ledgers in the Dark
39. First Spark
40. The Mirror Room
41. The Third Cut
42. The Floor Tilts
43. Harbor Math
44. The Bookkeeper’s Choice
45. Saint Ophelia’s Ledger
46. The Red Ledger
47. The Tilt Hardens
48. The Blowback
49. The Breath They Borrow
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