Chapter 52: Trapped Roots
AVA'S POV
Light blinded me before I'd even cracked open my eyes. My head throbbed, my body refusing to move, but the clock on my nightstand taunted me with its cold face: 9:30 AM.
Panic cut through my chest like shards of ice water. The Aris site visit. Ten o'clock. Ten.
Sheets tangled around...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Gilded Cage
2. Chapter 2: Echoes and Embers
3. Chapter 3: Charcoal and Scars
4. Chapter 4: The Poison
5. Chapter 5: The Stepfather's Counsel
6. Chapter 6: The Breaking Point
7. Chapter 7: The Ultimatum
8. Chapter 8: An Unlikely Alliance
9. Chapter 9: The Set-Up
10. Chapter 10: The Confrontation
11. Chapter 11: Fractured Loyalties
12. Chapter 12: Crossroads of Control
13. Chapter 13: The Spark Before The Fire
14. Chapter 14: Shattered Focus
15. CHAPTER 15: Embers & Anchor
16. Chapter 16: The Forbidden Pull
17. Chapter 17: Echoes at Midnight
18. Chapter 18: Surrendered Boundaries
19. Chapter 19: Sanctuary's Edge
20. Chapter 20: Anchor's Fracture
21. Chapter 21: Into The Night
22. CHAPTER 22: Aftermath
23. Chapter 23: Cracks in the Ice
24. Chapter 24: Shadows and Echoes
25. Chapter 25: Poisoned Blood
26. Chapter 26: The Taste of Ash and Ambition
27. Chapter 27: Whispers and Warning Signs
28. Chapter 28: Smoke and Shadows
29. Chapter 29: The Suffocating Orbit
30. Chapter 30: Gilded Cages
31. Chapter 31: The Fracture After the Storm
32. Chapter 32: Aftershock
33. Chapter 33: Claimed in the Quiet
34. Chapter 34: Entangled at Dawn
35. Chapter 35: The Quiet Between Heartbeats
36. Chapter 36: Morning of Submission
37. Chapter 37: Chaos & Consequences
38. Chapter 38: The Price of Defiance
39. Chapter 39: Ashes and Obsession
40. Chapter 40: Fractured Shapes
41. Chapter 41: Scars of Surrender
42. Chapter 42: The Monster and the Maiden
43. Chapter 43: Threads in the Dark
44. Chapter 44: Broken Promises
45. Chapter 45: Violation of the Perimeter
46. Chapter 46: The Wolf in the Glass
47. Chapter 47: Fractured Facade
48. Chapter 48: Chains of Betrayal
49. Chapter 49: The Poison and the Shield
50. Chapter 50: Tangled Sanctuary
51. CHAPTER 51: The Silent Witness
52. Chapter 52: Trapped Roots
53. Chapter 53: Claimed and Exposed
54. Chapter 54: The Weight of Want
55. Chapter 55: Tangled Blueprints
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