WITHOUT THE EMPIRE
(Narrator – POV)
The safehouse at King’s Cross was quiet in a way Julian Sterling wasn’t used to. No ringing phones, no meetings scheduled in fifteen-minute blocks, no steady hum of his empire’s machinery beneath his feet. Just silence.
It pressed against the windows like fog, and in that silen...
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Chapters
1. THE SPARK BENEATH THE SUIT
2. COMING FOR HIM
3. THE GAME BEGINS
4. HIS GUARD LET DOWN
5. CEO'S MISTRESS
6. REVENGE AT IT'S BEAUTIFUL PEAK
7. ASHES OF US
8. THE WOMAN HE NEVER KNEW
9. THE DEVIL'S BLIND SPOT
10. THE PRICE OF POWER
11. REWRITING THE RULES
12. NO MORE MERCY
13. TRUTH, SERVED COLD
14. AFTER THE FALL
15. BUILT FROM RUIN
16. THE SHAPE OF RUIN
17. TERMS OF COLLAPSE
18. FRACTURES OF LOYALTY
19. KINGDOMS BLEED QUIETLY
20. WAR ROOMS AND BROKEN MIRRORS
21. THE EDGE OF THE KNIFE
22. DANGEROUS RESSURRECTION
23. THE GHOST IN LISBON
24. THE ZURICH BROADCAST
25. SCARS ON PAPER
26. THE BOARDROOM RESSURRECTION
27. ENEMIES IN THE DUST
28. BURN NOTICE
29. THE GHOST IN THE GLASS
30. A NAME WRITTEN IN FIRE.
31. THE FIRE BENEATH THE EMPIRE
32. GLASS HOUSES
33. THE ARCHITECT'S SHADOW
34. THE GHOST AND BLOOD
35. THE BOY WITH BLUE EYES
36. BERLIN'S HEARTBEAT
37. THE SECOND ACT
38. MOTHER OF THE FLAW
39. THE FLAW AWAKENS
40. THE BLOOD PROTOCOL
41. FRACTURES IN THE MIRROR
42. THE HEIR AND THE WEAPON
43. ASHES OF CONTROL
44. THE RED THREAD
45. CODE RED IN THE BLOODLINE
46. THE KISS BEFORE COLLAPSE
47. THE SHAPE OF BETRAYAL
48. THE MERCY EQUATION
49. THE RECLAMATION GAME
50. THE GALA GAMBIT
51. FIRESTORM PROTOCOL
52. NO GODS, ONLY GRAVES
53. THE DEAD DON'T BLEED
54. OMEGA PROTOCOL
55. A KINGDOM OF ASH
56. THE GLASS THRONE
57. WHAT REMAINS AFTER FIRE
58. HER NAME WAS ARABELLA
59. FRACTURES IN THE PERFECT MACHINE
60. MIRRORS DON'T BLEED
61. THE FACE THAT BLEEDS
62. THE EQUATION BREAKS
63. WHEN GODS FALL
64. THE ART OF REBUILDING FIRE
65. THRONES MADE OF SKIN AND GLASS
66. THE PERFORMANCE OF POWER
67. TANGIER'S MASQUERADE
68. WHEN GODS BLEED
69. THE SHAPE OF HUNGER
70. CURRENTS THAT DROWN QUIETLY
71. THE FIRST RIPPLES
72. TEETH IN THE WATER
73. HOW TO TEACH A RIVER TO DROWN ITSELF
74. THE ART OF BREAKING A FACE WITHOUT TOUCHING IT
75. WHEN FIRE LEARNS TO BREATHE
76. THE INVITATION TO DROWN
77. THE TABLE BETWEEN US
78. THE FIRST CUT IS ALWAYS VOLUNTARY
79. PHASE TWO HAS NO SAFE WORD
80. THE KISS BEFORE THE KNIFE
81. POISON IS A LOVE LANGUAGE
82. ASHES REMEMBER EVERYTHING
83. THE QUIET BEFORE THE SLAUGHTER
84. WHEN THE CITY HOLDS IT'S BREATH
85. BLOOD IS THE FINEST INK
86. THE ECHO OF THE TRIGGER
87. PRESSURE IS A SILENT WEAPON
88. WHEN BLOOD SPEAKS LOUDER THAN LEAKS
89. THE SHADOWS IN THE BOARDROOM
90. THE KNIFE YOU DON'T SEE
91. SHADOWS IN GLASS
92. TERMS OF CONTAINMENT
93. THE BOARD'S KNIFE
94. THE ROOM WITH NO DOORS
95. THREADS IN THE DARK
96. THE COUNTDOWN BLEEDS
97. OFF THE MAP
98. ASHES UNDER GLASS
99. FRACTURED GROUND
100. THE RED PULSE
101. THE NET TIGHTENS
102. WHEN THE NET SNAPS
103. THE ROOM WITH NO CLOCKS
104. THE INTERMEDIARY
105. THE FRACTURE
106. FRACTURES AND FIREWALLS
107. ELISE'S GAMBIT
108. THE KNIFE FALLS
109. THE RETURN
110. SHADOWED ALLOWANCES
111. THE QUIET BETRAYAL
112. PAWNS IN MOTION
113. THE FIRST VAULT
114. THE VAULT TRAP
115. ASHES AND KNIVES
116. SPLINTERS AND SMOKE
117. SHARDS IN THE DARK
118. THE LAST GAMBIT
119. THE ASHES LEFT BEHIND
120. OBSESSIONS REIGNITED
121. SPARKS IN THE DARK
122. BETWEEN WOLVES
123. FAULT LINES
124. THE DEVIL YOU KEEP
125. THE SLOW KNIFE
126. THE WEIGHT OF SILENCE
127. THE GLASS CAGE
128. THE CAGE TREMBLES
129. FRACTURED HEAT
130. THE COST OF FIRE
131. THE FIRE BETWEEN WALLS
132. CROSSING FIRE
133. THE FAULT LINE
134. LEVERAGE
135. THE BREACH
136. WHEN THE KNIFE CUTS
137. BLOOD IN THE OPEN
138. ASHES IN THE SPOTLIGHT
139. THE FRACTURED LINE
140. THE FIRST ACCORD
141. FAULT LINES
142. CRACKS IN THE MASK
143. WITHOUT THE EMPIRE
144. SHADOWS IN MOTION
145. FRACTURED RESOLVE
146. THE BREAK-IN
147. THE COUNTRYSIDE RETREAT
148. THE BREAKING POINT
149. THE FIRST CROSSING
150. THE SHIFTING GRIP
151. THE RUIN
152. THE FIRE IN GLASS
153. THE RECKLESS FLAME
154. CARRYING THE FIRE
155. THE DEBT OF FIRE
156. THE SHADOW OF FIRE
157. THE FIRST FRACTURE
158. THE FALL OF STERLING
159. ASHES OF VICTORY
160. CHAINS OF DESIRE
161. THE SPIRAL
162. BLOOD OATHS
163. THE ONLY REAL THING
164. REFLECTIONS IN ASHES
165. THE CHOICE
166. VENOM
167. THE CHOICE OF CHAINS
168. THE BREAKING POINT
169. THE WORLD IS GONE
170. CLAUSTROPHOBIA
171. MIRROR OF THE MONSTER
172. POWER STRUGGLES
173. SHADOW OF MARCUS
174. VIVIAN'S ERASURE
175. THE COLLAPSE OF A KING
176. CRADLING THE FIRE
177. THE MIRROR SHATTERS
178. THE GHOST OF FREEDOM
179. ASHES INTO STONES
180. HOLLOW FOUNDATIONS
181. THE WEIGHT OF DOUBT
182. FRAGILE PEACE
183. THE DOUBTER'S HEART
184. THE SILENCE OF VICTORY
185. A GHOST AMONG MEN
186. THE WEIGHT OF PITY
187. VIVIAN'S SHADOWLESS CROWN
188. ASHES OF AN EMPIRE
189. IN THE ASHES TOGETHER
190. THE SHAPE OF SURVIVAL
191. THE EDGE OF OBSESSION
192. DANGEROUS TENDERNESS
193. SOMETHING LIKE LOVE
194. HOLLOW TRIUMPH
195. THE BINDING THREAD
196. A CAGE OF FIRE
197. THE LAST CHAIN
198. END OF FIRE
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