Chapter 34 Blood and power
Lord Mateo Valdez POV
The smoke from my cigar curled toward the vaulted ceiling of the estate’s council room, dissipating into shadows cast by the crystal chandelier overhead. The room smelled of leather, aged whiskey, and the particular musk of men who wielded power over life and death.
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The betrayal
2. Chapter 2 The handsome stranger
3. Chapter 3 The foreclosure
4. Chapter 4 Melissa's Pov
5. Chapter 5 It was a mistake
6. Chapter 6 Control
7. Chapter 7 Walls 
8. Chapter 8 Family dinner
9. Chapter 9 Wine girl
10. Chapter 10 Drowning
11. Chapter 11 Why do you care?
12. Chapter 12 The art exhibition
13. Chapter 13 Victor Kane?
14. Chapter 14 Unhinged
15. Chapter 15 Not the hospital
16. Chapter 16 Forbidden Territory
17. Chapter 17 Breaking point
18. Chapter 18 Empire
19. Chapter 19 Rejection and Release
20. Chapter 20 Collision course
21. Chapter 21 The Devil's bargain
22. Chapter 22 Shattered
23. Chapter 23 Controlled chaos
24. Chapter 24 Monday
25. Chapter 25 The Devil's office
26. Chapter 26 Golden cage
27. Chapter 27 Welcome home
28. Chapter 28 Morning after
29. Chapter 29 Paparazzi
30. Chapter 30 First day
31. Chapter 31 Melissa's frustration
32. Chapter 32 More than co workers
33. Chapter 33 Breaking
34. Chapter 34 Blood and power
35. Chapter 35 Safe
36. Chapter 36 Girls night
37. Chapter 37 Do it Daddy
38. Chapter 38 Do it Daddy II
39. Chapter 39 Midnight Confessions
40. Chapter 40 Pathetic
41. Chapter 41 The Skirt
42. Chapter 42 The Accusations
43. Chapter 43 The Kings move
44. Chapter 44 The Kings move II
45. Chapter 45 Cassandra's Descent
46. Chapter 46 Cold water
47. Chapter 47 Adrenaline rush
48. Chapter 48 Flying
49. Chapter 49 Through the lens
50. Chapter 50 Breaking point
51. Chapter 51 Ghost from the past
52. Chapter 52 I'm going to punch someone
53. Chapter 53 Hello Father
54. Chapter 54 Confession to the void
55. Chapter 55 The beach
56. Chapter 56 Blood on the sand
57. Chapter 57 The girl who saved me
58. Chapter 58 Unspoken
59. Chapter 59 Last dance before hell
60. Chapter 60 The Harlot and the beast
61. Chapter 61 The symbol
62. Chapter 62 Blood on my lips
63. Chapter 63 The fool's crown
64. Chapter 64 Ice cream and secrets
65. Chapter 65 Thus isn't what I want
66. Chapter 66 The date
67. Chapter 67 Blood and bones
68. Chapter 68 Fear and resolve
69. Chapter 69 Not me
70. Chapter 70 Beautiful
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