Chapter 70 The Extraction
The holding cell smelled like disinfectant and institutional despair.
Maritza repeatedly counted ceiling tiles on the bench. Forty-two. Same as her mother's age when she'd "died" the first time. Everything in this family came back to numbers that hurt.
Her hands were trembling. She pressed the...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 On the Rocks
2. Chapter 2 The Morning After the Moan
3. Chapter 3 A Bitter Proposal
4. Chapter 4 The Corporate Hangover
5. Chapter 5 Neat, with a Twist
6. Chapter 6 The Tasting Room
7. Chapter 7 Champagne and Betrayal
8. Chapter 8 The Three Devils 
9. Chapter 9 When Yesterday Knocks
10. Chapter 10 Ghosts Don’t Stay Buried
11. Chapter 11 Poison Tastes Like Honey
12. Chapter 12 The Prodigal Daughter
13. Chapter 13 Eligible to Eat
14. Chapter 14 My Safe Place
15. Chapter 15 The Suit Makes the Savior
16. Chapter 16 Blood and Sapphires
17. Chapter 17 Among Royal Lies
18. Chapter 18 Permission to Ruin
19. Chapter 19 The Calm Before
20. Chapter 20 The Wolves Go Public
21. Chapter 21 Tell Me Lies
22. Chapter 22 Between Lies and Secrets
23. Chapter 23 The Cost of The Truth
24. Chapter 24 Deepfake
25. Chapter 25 The Family Secret
26. Chapter 26 The First Taste of Freedom
27. Chapter 27 Proof of Nothing
28. Chapter 28 What I Had To Do
29. Chapter 29 The Mole in the Hacienda
30. Chapter 30 A Legacy of Lies
31. Chapter 31 The Breakfast Bombshell
32. Chapter 32 The Bait & The Blade
33. Chapter 33 What He Left Behind
34. Chapter 34 Turbulence
35. Chapter 35 Bleeding Out
36. Chapter 36 The Devil’s Garden
37. Chapter 37 The Aftermath
38. Chapter 38 The Devil You Know
39. Chapter 39 The Ashes We Become
40. Chapter 40 The Howling Void
41. Chapter 41 What He Lost in the Fire
42. Chapter 42 The Interrogation
43. Chapter 43 Soledad’s Confession
44. Chapter 44 In the name of Love
45. Chapter 45 A Ghost in the Machine
46. Chapter 46 Thorns and Tequila
47. Chapter 47 Red Feathers, Hidden Lenses
48. Chapter 48 Shadow Room
49. Chapter 49 Chapel Ruins
50. Chapter 50 How to Make 2,000 Square Feet Feel Like a Coffin
51. Chapter 51 Breakfast & Burnt Bridges
52. Chapter 52 The Widow’s Offer
53. Chapter 53 The Pieces Begin
54. Chapter 54 Me, You, and Santo The Cat
55. Chapter 55 Nothing ever goes to plan, darlin'
56. Chapter 56 Welcome to Peru
57. Chapter 57 Blood in the Wine Cellar
58. Chapter 58 The Prince’s Bargain
59. Chapter 59 Over the Garden Wall
60. Chapter 60 Fallen Angel
61. Chapter 61 Run
62. Chapter 62 The Sister’s Sacrifice
63. Chapter 63 Impossible Choices
64. Chapter 64 Sunrise at the Distillery
65. Chapter 65 This is Family
66. Chapter 66 Blood Sisters
67. Chapter 67 Mother Knows Best
68. Chapter 68 The Grand Opening
69. Chapter 69 Betrayal from Family
70. Chapter 70 The Extraction
71. Chapter 71 The Safe House Confession
72. Chapter 72 The Double Cross
73. Chapter 73 Letters from the Dead
74. Chapter 74 The Truth About Moving On
75. Chapter 75 The Georgina Revelation
76. Chapter 76 Maritza’s Doubt
77. Chapter 77 Honeymoon and Complications
78. Chapter 78 Family Dramas
79. Chapter 79 The Tunnel Revelation
80. Chapter 80 The Media Storm
81. Chapter 81 Testimonies and Truths
82. Chapter 82 The Verdict of Public Opinion
83. Chapter 83 Fractured Bonds
84. Chapter 84 The Tunnel of Ghosts
85. Chapter 85 Tequila Sunrise
86. Chapter 86 The Burning
87. Chapter 87 After Burning
88. Chapter 88 The Diary in the Dark
89. Chapter 89 Blood in the Barrels
90. Chapter 90 The Queen’s Scheme
91. Chapter 91 The Ghost Returns
92. Chapter 92 Safehouse Ashes
93. Chapter 93 Our Mother's Secret
94. Chapter 94 The Nuke in Her Hand
95. Chapter 95 Dawn at the Distillery
96. Chapter 96 Shadows in the Caves
97. Chapter 97 The Rival's Bid
98. Chapter 98 The Chapel at Midnight
99. Chapter 99 Ashes and Agave
100. Chapter 100 Eternal Flames
101. Chapter 101 The True Heir
102. Chapter 102 No Dawn Surrender
103. Chapter 103 Blood and Agave
104. Chapter 104 Tequila and Tears
105. Chapter 105 Two Hearts Beating
106. Chapter 106 Shadows on the Ultrasound
107. Chapter 107 Blood Calls to Blood
108. Chapter 108 The Handler
109. Chapter 109 For Family’s Sake
110. Chapter 110 Counteroffer
111. Chapter 111 The Trap
112. Chapter 112 Legacy Reborn
113. Chapter 113 Growing Pains
114. Chapter 114 The Birth
115. Chapter 115 The Birth – Part II
116. Chapter 116 Two Hearts Beating
117. Chapter 117 First Breath of Dawn
118. Chapter 118 New Normal
119. Chapter 119 Ghosts at the Door
120. Chapter 120 Shadows in the City
121. Chapter 121 The Cost of Mercy
122. Chapter 122 The Injunction
123. Chapter 123 The Proxy War
124. Chapter 124 Return to the Fields
125. Chapter 125 Both Homes Are Waiting
126. Chapter 126 Two Homes, One Heart
127. Chapter 127 The Legacy
128. Chapter 128 Epilogue – The Next Generation
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