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Chapters
Chapter 1: The Gilded Cage
Chapter 2: Echoes and Embers
Chapter 3: Charcoal and Scars
Chapter 4: Embers and Ultimatums
Chapter 5: Smudged Lines
Chapter 6: Fractures in the Glass
Chapter 7: Six O'Clock Shadows
Chapter 8: Apartment Reverberations
Chapter 9: Echoes of Silence
Chapter 10: Terrace Atelier
Chapter 11: Fractured Loyalties
Chapter 12: Crossroads of Control
Chapter 13: The Spark Before The Fire
Chapter 14: Shattered Focus
CHAPTER 15: Embers & Anchor
Chapter 16: The Forbidden Pull
Chapter 17: Echoes at Midnight
Chapter 18: Surrendered Boundaries
Chapter 19: Sanctuary's Edge
Chapter 20: Anchor's Fracture
Chapter 21: Into The Night
CHAPTER 22: Aftermath
Chapter 23: Cracks in the Ice
Chapter 24: Shadows and Echoes
Chapter 25: Poisoned Blood
Chapter 26: The Taste of Ash and Ambition
Chapter 27: Whispers and Warning Signs
Chapter 28: Smoke and Shadows
Chapter 29: The Suffocating Orbit
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Chapter 26: The Taste of Ash and Ambition
AVA’S POV
Light cut through the gauzy curtains of my Chinatown apartment, not warm but accusatory. I opened my eyes, air cloying and stifling, thick as the dead weight of ghost bodies pressed down on me. Julian. The cruel, violent thud on the door, the brutal, harsh grasp that was less passion than...