Chapter 78 The Storm Descends
The first strike wasn’t lightning. It was silence.
One heartbeat, the estate was alive with voices—chanting, wards humming, shields shimmering. The next, the air collapsed. A vacuum. A pause so deep Lorraine thought her own pulse had stopped.
Then the storm fell.
Lightning cracked across the sky, pu...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Stairway to Heaven
2. Chapter 2 Just Tonight
3. Chapter 3 Sweating Bullets
4. Chapter 4 Unleash the Beast
5. Chapter 5 Wings of Darkness
6. Chapter 6 Back in the Fire
7. Chapter 7 Before the Skies Come Down
8. Chapter 8 Devil You Know
9. Chapter 9 Stigmata
10. Chapter 10 Born Into the Flame
11. Chapter 11 The Devil in the Tower
12. Chapter 12 Tides
13. Chapter 13 The Master of the House
14. Chapter 14 Flight into the Dark
15. Chapter 15 Offering Plate
16. Chapter 16 Clawing at Skin
17. Chapter 17 Playing with Fire
18. Chapter 18 Burned
19. Chapter 19 Awakening
20. Chapter 20 Departure
21. Chapter 21 Danger Zone
22. Chapter 22 Thin Air
23. Chapter 23 Behind the Velvet Walls
24. Chapter 24 Ghosts of the Past
25. Chapter 25 Walk of Witches
26. Chapter 26 Fire on the Hill
27. Chapter 27 Confessions in the Dark
28. Chapter 28 A Rotten Kingdom
29. Chapter 29 Schemes in the Shadows
30. Chapter 30 Roads of Fire
31. Chapter 31 Smoke on the Water
32. Chapter 32 Not a Beacon, A Heartbeat
33. Chapter 33 Smoke, Salt, and Shadows
34. Chapter 34 Intruder in the Study
35. Chapter 35 Betrayal in the Walls
36. Chapter 36 Fragile Reconciliation
37. Chapter 37 Dreams Over Breakfast
38. Chapter 38 Surprise in French Quarter
39. Chapter 39 Names in the Dust
40. Chapter 40 Lanterns and Shadows
41. Chapter 41 A Different Kind of Magic
42. Chapter 42 At Odds
43. Chapter 43 Seductress
44. Chapter 44 Storms on the Horizon
45. Chapter 45 Names in the Shadows
46. Chapter 46 A Key in Blood
47. Chapter 47 Beast of Burden
48. Chapter 48 Cracks in the Walls
49. Chapter 49 Surviving the Storm
50. Chapter 50 Lanterns at Dusk
51. Chapter 51 The Bargain
52. Chapter 52 Circles Within Circles
53. Chapter 53 Anchors
54. Chapter 54 Pattern
55. Chapter 55 Sugar on the Tongue, Thunder in the Chest
56. Chapter 56 Exhale
57. Chapter 57 Shadows in the Rain
58. Chapter 58 The Bridge
59. Chapter 59 Honey on the Knife
60. Chapter 60 The Seam
61. Chapter 61 Poetry from the King
62. Chapter 62 Trial by Moonlight
63. Chapter 63 Prophecy
64. Chapter 64 Moon Sisters
65. Chapter 65 Cloaked
66. Chapter 66 Whispers in the Storm
67. Chapter 67 The Omen in the Glass
68. Chapter 68 Confessions
69. Chapter 69 Shadows of the Bayou
70. Chapter 70 A Door in the Water
71. Chapter 71 Better Together
72. Chapter 72 Strategies
73. Chapter 73 Let Me Remember
74. Chapter 74 Unleashed
75. Chapter 75 Unname What's Been Named
76. Chapter 76 What the Shadows Take
77. Chapter 77 Cross the Threshold
78. Chapter 78 The Storm Descends
79. Chapter 79 Ascension
80. Chapter 80 The Night the Storm Let Go
81. Chapter 81 Scars of the Storm
82. Chapter 82 A Door Closed, A Door Opened
83. Chapter 83 Weight of Love
84. Chapter 84 Shadows and Light
85. Chapter 85 Epilogue- The Water Remembers
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