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 Twenty-Five Begin With Fire
William arrived precisely on time, which meant he’d waited until the exact moment I’d asked for, not early or late, but orchestrated for optics. Always optics. He stepped into the estate’s second parlor like it belonged to him, coat crisp, expression unreadable. The room had been chosen carefully, w...