Chapter 9 Ashes and Chains
Third POV
Marco DeLuca stood in the narrow hallway outside his townhouse door and stared at the envelope lying on the doormat.
No return address. No postage. Hand-delivered.
His stomach dropped.
He picked it up with fingers that wanted to shake, carried it inside, and tore it open before he coul...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Scent of Fate
2. Chapter 2 The System Failure
3. Chapter 3 The Architect of Ruin
4. Chapter 4 The Sketch
5. Chapter 5 The Portrait
6. Chapter 6 The Third Anniversary
7. Chapter 7 The Special Ringtone
8. Chapter 8 The Trap Tightens
9. Chapter 9 Ashes and Chains
10. Chapter 10 Deliberate
11. Chapter 11 Wasteland
12. Chapter 12 Small Mercies
13. Chapter 13 The Friend Who Stayed
14. Chapter 14 We Need to Talk
15. Chapter 15 Open It
16. Chapter 16 You Worked So Hard
17. Chapter 17 You Need Me
18. Chapter 18 Calculations
19. Chapter 19 Convergence
20. Chapter 20 Williamsburg
21. Chapter 21 The Mother I Never Saw
22. Chapter 22 Safe Harbor
23. Chapter 23 The Menu
24. Chapter 24 Under the Table
25. Chapter 25 Blacklisted
26. Chapter 26 The Call
27. Chapter 27 When Can You Start?
28. Chapter 28 Mr. Ashford Would Like to See You
29. Chapter 29 Just Tonight
30. Chapter 30 The Costume
31. Chapter 31 The Collector
32. Chapter 32 Drugged
33. Chapter 33 Fever and Ice
34. Chapter 34 Please
35. Chapter 35 When Ice Melts
36. Chapter 36 Awakening to the Proposition
37. Chapter 37 Barefoot Escape
38. Chapter 38 Chilled Retreat
39. Chapter 39 Blushing Echoes
40. Chapter 40 Shadows in the Spotlight
41. Chapter 41 Unwanted Shadows
42. Chapter 46 He's Engaged
43. Chapter 43 And Now This Moon Is Finally Mine
44. Chapter 44 This Is What Happiness Looks Like
45. Chapter 45 We're Still Married)
46. Chapter 46 Mint
47. Chapter 47 Scent of Restraint
48. Chapter 48 Lingering Haze
49. Chapter 49 You're Mine
50. Chapter 50 This Was Wrong
51. Chapter 51 Congee
52. Chapter 52 Fever's Fade and Morning Steam
53. Chapter 53
54. Chapter 54 The Trap Tightens
55. Chapter 55 The Right Question
56. Chapter 56 A Fair Offer?
57. Chapter 57 Echoes of What Was
58. Chapter 58 Cracks in the Resolve
59. Chapter 59 First Instincts
60. Chapter 60 Breaking the Spell
61. Chapter 61 Severed Strings
62. Chapter 62 Reckoning
63. Chapter 63 Misdirected Fury
64. Chapter 64 Collateral Damage
65. Chapter 65 Stage Four
66. Chapter 66 The Only Name Left
67. Chapter 67 The Price of Yes
68. Chapter 68 The Sunset Transaction
69. Chapter 69 Silk and Shadows
70. Chapter 70 The Sweetest Taboo
71. Chapter 71 Shattered Illusions
72. Chapter 72 Ruined
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