Chapters
1. Chapter One – Three Jobs and No Future
2. Chapter Two – Blood on the Contract
3. Chapter Three – “Lot Thirty-One”
4. Chapter Four – The Brothers
5. Chapter Five – The Ride
6. Chapter Six – The Father
7. Chapter Seven – Settling the Dust
8. Chapter Eight – The Second Summons
9. Chapter Nine – Unread Pages
10. Chapter Ten – Obedience and Observation
11. Chapter Eleven – Masks and Mirrors
12. Chapter Twelve – The Dinner Table, Part 1
13. Chapter Thirteen – The Dinner Table, Part II
14. Chapter Fourteen – Ash and Thorns
15. Chapter Fifteen – The Sleeping Branch
16. Chapter Sixteen – Faultlines in Silence
17. Chapter Seventeen – Lines That Blur
18. Chapter Eighteen – The Name Buried in Ash
19. Chapter Nineteen – The Weight of Blood
20. Chapter Twenty – The Woman They Sent For
21. Chapter Twenty-One – By Invitation or Fire
22. Chapter Twenty-Two – What Cain Remembers
23. Chapter Twenty-Three – Ink and Intention
24. Chapter Twenty-Four – “The Third Path”
25. Chapter Twenty-Five Begin With Fire
26. Chapter Twenty-Six – Every Door Closed
27. Chapter Twenty-Seven – First Flame
28. Chapter Twenty-Eight –Lines We Cross
29. Chapter Twenty-Nine – Terms of Power
30. Chapter Thirty –The Vault Below
31. Chapter Thirty-One – Blood Knows the Way
32. Chapter Thirty-Two – What Remains
33. Chapter Thirty-Three – Something Has Shifted
34. Chapter Thirty-Four –Knock at the Door
35. Chapter Thirty-Five –The Message Sent
36. Chapter Thirty-Six –Three May Pass
37. Chapter Thirty-Seven –What They Already Know
38. Chapter Thirty-Eight –Uninvited Ties
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Chapter Twenty-Nine – Terms of Power
The message arrived with no knock, and no courier was in sight. Just a slip of black parchment tucked beneath my pillow—still warm, as if recently held, but untouched by human hands. The handwriting was familiar, neat, and measured. The ink shimmered faintly with old magic, the kind that didn’t f...
