Chapter twenty-one: The Velvet Cage
Chapter 21 – The Velvet Cage
Levi woke to the soft scrape of curtains being pulled back. Sunlight spilled into the room, golden and sharp, slicing through the lingering shadows of night. For a moment, he felt a phantom sense of freedom, as if he could simply rise and walk out into the world beyond....

Chapters
1. Chapter one - The Wrong Twin
2. Chapter two: Into the SUV
3. Chapter three: The Arrival
4. Chapter four: The first Lie
5. Chapter 5: The Lavish Prison
6. Chapter six: The Unwanted Meal
7. Chapter seven: Summoned
8. Chapter eight: Rules of Survival

9. Chapter nine: The Knife Game

10. Chapter ten: Guardhouse Laughter

11. Chapter eleven: Night Vision 

12. Chapter twelve: Dinner with the King

13. Chapter thirteen: The Locked Garden 

14. Chapter fourteen: Matteo's First Warning 

15. Chapter fifteen: The Storm 

16. Chapter sixteen: The Escape Attempt 

17. Chapter seventeen: The Punishment 

18. Chapter eighteen: The Wrong Twin's Shadow 

19. Chapter nineteen: Breaking Point 

20. Chapter twenty: Lucien's Confessions 

21. Chapter twenty-one: The Velvet Cage

22. Chapter twenty-two: The Rules of Obedience 

23. Chapter twenty-three: First Crack in Routine

24. Chapter twenty-four: The Lieutenants Eye

25. Chapter twenty-five: Dinner Games

26. Chapter twenty-six: The Watchers

27. Chapter twenty-seven: The Pressure Builds

28. Chapter twenty-eight: The Silent Journal 

29. Chapter twenty- nine: The Mask Slips

30. Chapter thirty The First Shift Of Power

31. Chapter thirty-one 

32. Chapter thirty-two: The Journal Discovered 


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