Chapter 68: Kneel or Burn
POV: Adrian
The council’s demand was met with silence, the way a blade holds blood. Heavy, metallic, dripping with something you couldn’t scrub out, no matter how many centuries of hymns they sang in these walls.
The High Elder’s decree still vibrated against the stone:
“One of you must kneel.”
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Ghost in Heels
2. Chapter 2: The Devil’s Bargain
3. Chapter 3: Vows in Blood
4. Chapter 4: Fire & Chains
5. Chapter 5: The Second Shadow
6. Chapter 6: Tame the Flame
7. Chapter 7: The Devil’s Widow
8. Chapter 8: Dinner with the Devil
9. Chapter 9: The Mother Ghost.
10. Chapter 10: Predator’s Confession
11. Chapter 11: Bound in Fire
12. Chapter 12: A Taste for Blood
13. Chapter 13: The Judas Within
14. Chapter 14: The Caged Flame
15. Chapter 15: The Devil You Knew
16. Chapter 16: The Other Woman
17. Chapter 17: Chains of Betrayal
18. Chapter 18: The Price of Her Blood
19. Chapter 19: Her Father’s Sins
20. Chapter 20: The Devil’s Choice
21. Chapter 21: A Bride in Chains.
22. Chapter 22: The Devil at the Gates
23. Chapter 23: The Pact of Monsters
24. Chapter 24: Chains of Ice and Fire
25. Chapter 25: Blood of the Unforgiven
26. Chapter 26: The Devil’s Ultimatum
27. Chapter 27: Blood for Blood
28. Chapter 28: Chains of Truth
29. Chapter 29: Vows in Ashes
30. Chapter 30: The Devil You Bleed For.
31. Chapter 31: The Bloodline Gambit
32. Chapter 32: Seventy-Two Hours to Ruin
33. Chapter 33: Intimacy as a weapon.
34. Chapter 34: Blood in the Snow
35. Chapter 35: The Knife Between Us
36. Chapter 36: The Shadow Who Knows Your Pulse
37. Chapter 37: The Siege in the Snow
38. Chapter 38: Splintered in the Snow
39. Chapter 39: The House of Mirrors
40. Chapter 40: The Road of No Return
41. Chapter 41: The Eleven-Hour Knife
42. Chapter 42: The Blood Tithe
43. Chapter 43: The Sister in the Gate
44. Chapter 44: The Sanctum’s Outer Skin
45. Chapter 45: Blood in the Dark
46. Chapter 46: The Bridge of Betrayals
47. Chapter 47: The Chamber of Echoes
48. Chapter 48: The Fire’s Demand
49. Chapter 49: The Last Flame.
50. Chapter 50: The Ashes Between Us
51. Chapter 51: Brother’s Betrayal
52. Chapter 52: Masquerade of Blood
53. Chapter 53: The Chalice Betrayal
54. Chapter 54: Blood Crown.
55. Chapter 55: Throne of Ashes
56. Chapter 56: The Devil’s Countdown
57. Chapter 57: Blood in the Veins
58. Chapter 58: Blood for Blood
59. Chapter 59: The Enemy Within
60. Chapter 60: The Devil Strikes Back
61. Chapter 61: The Map of Blood
62. Chapter 62: The Rome Bait.
63. Chapter 63: Blood in the Eternal City.
64. Chapter 64: The Vatican Walls
65. Chapter 65: The Council’s Summons.
66. Chapter 66: The Devil Before the Tribunal
67. Chapter 67: The Tribunal’s Chains.
68. Chapter 68: Kneel or Burn
69. Chapter 69: Chains of Fire.
70. Chapter 70: The Devil’s Gambit.
71. Chapter 71: Blood on Marble.
72. Chapter 72: The Devil’s Answer
73. Chapter 73: The City That Burns with Us
74. Chapter 74: The Devil’s Counter curse.
75. Chapter 75: The Devil’s Wife.
76. Chapter 76: The Devil’s Ultimatum.
77. Chapter 77: The Vatican’s Shadow
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