Chapter 39 A secret with good manners
Lina’s POV
The library lights were too bright. Not soft, cozy-library bright. Interrogation bright.
I stopped just inside the doorway.
Floor-to-ceiling shelves. Polished wood table. Glass cabinets. A room built for quiet reading and polite conversations.
Instead, it was about to host the autopsy o...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Too late
2. Chapter 2 The debts I never owed
3. Chapter 3 What I was worth
4. Chapter 4 The kingdom I woke in
5. Chapter 5 Mistaking curiosity for freedom
6. Chapter 6 The old law
7. Chapter 7 Lines already drawn
8. Chapter 8 The quiet knife
9. Chapter 9 It's now or never
10. Chapter 10 Punishment
11. Chapter 11 Dressed for the wolves 
12. Chapter 12 The look in his eyes
13. Chapter 13 A crown she never asked for
14. Chapter 14 The crown is a cage
15. Chapter 15 Under watch 
16. Chapter 16 The cost of a voice 
17. Chapter 17 A seat at the table 
18. Chapter 18 Things I wasn't meant to see
19. Chapter 19 Not afraid of him 
20. Chapter 20 Shifting shadows 
21. Chapter 21 Damage without fingerprints 
22. Chapter 22 Blinded 
23. Chapter 23 Already inside 
24. Chapter 24 This is what you built 
25. Chapter 25 When loyalty breaks
26. Chapter 26 Blood doesn't mean loyalty 
27. Chapter 27 The weight of my name
28. Chapter 28 Confession 
29. Chapter 29 Lines I will not cross 
30. Chapter 30 Shield and cage 
31. Chapter 31 The distance we don't cross
32. Chapter 32 Standing too close 
33. Chapter 33 Another parcel 
34. Chapter 34 The distance we couldn't keep 
35. Chapter 35 From hurt to hard
36. Chapter 36 No more almost 
37. Chapter 37 Daughter of the enemy
38. Chapter 38 Someone else's backstory 
39. Chapter 39 A secret with good manners 
40. Chapter 40 The space between us 
41. Chapter 41 Reality struck at dawn 
42. Chapter 42 Consequences of that night 
43. Chapter 43 Something soft in a violent world 
44. Chapter 44 Something soft in a violent world (second half)
45. Chapter 45 Seventeen percent 
46. Chapter 46 Something defenseless 
47. Chapter 47 The first blow
48. Chapter 48 Counting exits 
49. Chapter 49 The only way out
50. Chapter 50 The quiet between us 
51. Chapter 51 The quiet between us (second half)
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