Picked up
The photographs lay scattered on the rug like breadcrumbs leading me into a darkness I wasn’t sure I could navigate. I knelt among them, trembling, picking up one after another, tracing the blurry edges of my own face. My eyes stung, not just from fear but from the realization of how thoroughly ...
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Chapters
1. The Invitation
2. The contract
3. Into the Devil’s Lair
4. Cage rules
5. First Night in the cage
6. Testing the Devil 
7. Possession and fire
8. Rebellion and Claim
9. Boundaries and Betrayal
10. The Edge of Control
11. Scheme and shadows
12. Temptation and Tension
13. Tightened grip
14. Lines Crossed
15. The Edge of Defiance
16. Lines in the Shadows
17. Controlled Flames
18. Temptation and Control
19. The Edge of Surrender
20. Fractured Control
21. Broken or reborn
22. The normalcy
23. Shadows of Desire
24. Forbidden whispers
25. The Edge of Control
26. Broken Shadows
27. The price for Obsession
28. Tested loyalists
29. Shadows in the hallways
30. Fire and Ice
31. Chains of Desire
32. Control or be controlled
33. At the edge of temptation
34. Shadows and Desire
35. The fog
36. Shadows of Betreyal
37. Dark Secret
38. Shadows and tactics
39. Calculated moves
40. First Strike
41. Shadows and darkness
42. Flames of control
43. Shadows in the Night
44. Tension and Temptation
45. Shadows and schemes
46. Calculated Risks
47. First Strike
48. Fire in the Courtyard
49. Shadows in the Estate
50. The Siege Within
51. The Temptation of Fire
52. Fire and surrender
53. The Siege
54. Infiltration
55. The Hunt Begins
56. Fire in the Dark
57. The third light
58. Picked up
59. Even Dangerous together
60. Swallowed hard
61. Slay play
62. The calm agai
63. Push back
64. Hale estate
65. The pulse
66. Another enemy
67. Doors and Glass
68. Dark nights
69. Whispers in the dark
70. Steady despite
71. The aftermath again
72. Morning drills
73. Ease of lingers
74. Pacing halls
75. Another Savage
76. The Hale estate
77. The unseen shadows
78. Flight or fight
79. Storm lull
80. Hallway fires
81. Spilled faints
82. Intelligence broken
83. Coiling chest
84. Chaos night
85. Fight or flight
86. Defaint smile
87. Blood and lingering
88. No place to hide
89. Brief strike
90. Far from finished
91. Rough edge
92. The storm
93. The attack
94. Final attack
95. The end
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