Chapter
Chapters
Chapter One – Three Jobs and No Future
Chapter Two – Blood on the Contract
Chapter Three – “Lot Thirty-One”
Chapter Four – The Brothers
Chapter Five – The Ride
Chapter Six – The Father
Chapter Seven – Settling the Dust
Chapter Eight – The Second Summons
Chapter Nine – Unread Pages
Chapter Ten – Obedience and Observation
Chapter Eleven – Masks and Mirrors
Chapter Twelve – The Dinner Table, Part 1
Chapter Thirteen – The Dinner Table, Part II
Chapter Fourteen – Ash and Thorns
Chapter Fifteen – The Sleeping Branch
Chapter Sixteen – Faultlines in Silence
Chapter Seventeen – Lines That Blur
Chapter Eighteen – The Name Buried in Ash
Chapter Nineteen – The Weight of Blood
Chapter Twenty – The Woman They Sent For
Chapter Twenty-One – By Invitation or Fire
Chapter Twenty-Two – What Cain Remembers
Chapter Twenty-Three – Ink and Intention
Chapter Twenty-Four – “The Third Path”
Chapter Twenty-Five Begin With Fire
Chapter Twenty-Six – Every Door Closed
Chapter Twenty-Seven – First Flame
Chapter Twenty-Eight –Lines We Cross
Chapter Twenty-Nine – Terms of Power
Chapter Thirty –The Vault Below
Chapter Thirty-One – Blood Knows the Way
Chapter Thirty-Two – What Remains
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Chapter Fifteen – The Sleeping Branch
The library was quiet in the way only old spaces could be, still air, shadow-stretched corners, and a silence that pressed in like velvet. Not oppressive. Not warm. Just present. I didn’t wait for permission. The brothers had made their choice: silence and half-truths. If they wouldn’t help me pull ...