Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Awakening
2. Chapter 2: Intruder
3. Chapter 3: The Offer
4. Chapter 4: The Ruins Remember
5. Chapter 5: The Eye Inside the Walls
6. Chapter 6: The Wolf Beneath the Skin
7. Chapter 7: A Monster’s Promise
8. Chapter 8: Hunger of the Null Wolf
9. Chapter 9: The Council’s Game
10. Chapter 10 – The Pull Between Us
11. Chapter 11 – Whispers of War
12. Chapter 12: The Forgotten Touch
13. Chapter 13 — In the Flame
14. Chapter 14 — The Storm Between Us
15. Chapter 15 – The Things We Can’t Say
16. Chapter 16 – Faces in the Mist
17. Chapter 17: Echoes Between Us
18. Chapter 18 – “The Edge of the Fire”
19. Chapter 19 – “What He Doesn’t Say”
20. Chapter 20 – “What Was Taken”
21. Chapter 21 – “Before the Fall”
22. Chapter 22 – “Ashes and Answers”
23. Chapter 23 – The Howl Beyond the Veil
24. Chapter 24 – The Shape of Fire and Memory
25. Chapter 25 – Between Flame and Flesh
26. Chapter 26 – Moonlight, Mischief, and Messy Hearts
27. Chapter 27 – The Truth in the Walls
28. Chapter 28 – The Fire Crown
29. Chapter 29 – The Heart of the Flame
30. Chapter 30 – When the Flame Calls the Storm
31. Chapter 31 – The Morning After the End
32. Chapter 32 – The Child of Flame and Shadow
33. Chapter 33 – The Name We Never Spoke
34. Chapter 34 – North of the Silence
35. Chapter 35 – The Child Between Worlds
36. Chapter 36 – A Daughter of Flame and Fear
37. Chapter 37 – Blood That Remembers
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Chapter 29 – The Heart of the Flame
The Keep was quiet—but it was the kind of quiet that meant something terrible was coming.
Not just battle. Something older.
Zara stood at the edge of the inner courtyard, barefoot in the cold dawn. Her breath came in shallow bursts, fogging the air. The stone beneath her feet thrummed. Every part ...
