Chapter 188 An Empty Pit
(Apollo, Adelaide & Caelum)
The training pits answered Apollo’s arrival with silence. This was no obedient hush of fear or the reverent stillness the mountain kept for its king. It was an absence—a space where two heartbeats should have been. A faint smear of lingering magic stained the air like...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Trigger Warnings
2. Chapter 2 Not Plain
3. Chapter 3 Selection Day
4. Chapter 4 Red Thread
5. Chapter 5 The Exchange
6. Chapter 6 Sacrificial Lambs
7. Chapter 7 Blessed. Blessed. Blessed.
8. Chapter 8 Fire Calls to Fire
9. Chapter 9 Claimed
10. Chapter 10 Someone Claimed
11. Chapter 11 What Are You
12. Chapter 12 Run For Me
13. Chapter 13 The Devil Has Come
14. Chapter 14 RUN. RUN. RUN.
15. Chapter 15 Let Him Chase
16. Chapter 16 Play With Her
17. Chapter 17 Don't Look Up
18. Chapter 18 He Bleeds
19. Chapter 19 Defy Him
20. Chapter 20 The Chase
21. Chapter 21 Finish It
22. Chapter 22 To Spite You
23. Chapter 23 Dawn Comes
24. Chapter 24 Just A Little Longer
25. Chapter 25 The Wrong Man
26. Chapter 26 He Wanted
27. Chapter 27 Law Of The Pact
28. Chapter 28 His Chosen
29. Chapter 29 Across The Veil
30. Chapter 30 She Is His
31. Chapter 31 His Chamber
32. Chapter 32 Damn You
33. Chapter 33 Help Me
34. Chapter 34 Desvistating Souls
35. Chapter 35 Insistent Calling
36. Chapter 36 Say My Name
37. Chapter 37 A Name With Power
38. Chapter 38 Unsettled
39. Chapter 39 A Kiss of Death
40. Chapter 40 I Am Not Yours
41. Chapter 41 Trapped
42. Chapter 42 A Doomed Thing
43. Chapter 43 Desperation
44. Chapter 44 Female - Not Human
45. Chapter 45 Satisfaction
46. Chapter 46 I'm In Hell
47. Chapter 47 Unbreakable
48. Chapter 48 Enlighten Me
49. Chapter 49 Don't Deny
50. Chapter 50 Throbbing
51. Chapter 51 The Voyeur
52. Chapter 52 My Palace. My Bed.
53. Chapter 53 The Devil's Mark
54. Chapter 54 His Fault
55. Chapter 55 Sealed in Blood and Flame
56. Chapter 56 Damn the Nightmares
57. Chapter 57 Sweet Dreams
58. Chapter 58 Tremble
59. Chapter 59 The Beast Awakens
60. Chapter 60 By His Wicked Tongue
61. Chapter 61 A Tall Tail
62. Chapter 62 The Emberborn
63. Chapter 63 The World Will Soon Burn
64. Chapter 64 The Hidden Heir
65. Chapter 65 A Task Undertaken
66. Chapter 66 It Woke. It Burns. It Comes!
67. Chapter 67 Trapped Monster
68. Chapter 68 A Deal Proposed
69. Chapter 69 A Deal Struck
70. Chapter 70 His Little Flame
71. Chapter 71 As The King Commands
72. Chapter 72 Demands Unanswered
73. Chapter 73 The Silence of Hell
74. Chapter 74 Footfalls in the Halls
75. Chapter 75 Brave or Stupid?
76. Chapter 76 To Barter with a Demon
77. Chapter 77 Devil Be Damned
78. Chapter 78 Breached
79. Chapter 79 A Sacrificial Altar
80. Chapter 80 Ways To Talk
81. Chapter 81 Forms of Torture
82. Chapter 82 Pain Is Easy
83. Chapter 83 Full Circle
84. Chapter 84 Already In Hell
85. Chapter 85 Could. Won't.
86. Chapter 86 A Slip of the Tongue
87. Chapter 87 Deserving of Recognition
88. Chapter 88 Five Days of Waiting
89. Chapter 89 To Be Broken
90. Chapter 90 Knife of Sensation
91. Chapter 91 The Beast Within
92. Chapter 92 To Flay Oneself
93. Chapter 93 Receding Waves
94. Chapter 94 Slip of the Tongue
95. Chapter 95 Corridor of Time
96. Chapter 96 The Devil's Broken Doll
97. Chapter 97 What's Left to Save
98. Chapter 98 Teeth or Mercy
99. Chapter 99 What The Devil Does
100. Chapter 100 The Nightmares Reach
101. Chapter 101 Small Mercies
102. Chapter 102 Someone Dared
103. Chapter 103 Curiosity
104. Chapter 104 From My Hands
105. Chapter 105 Rat in the Walls
106. Chapter 106 Jealousy
107. Chapter 107 Lethal Calm
108. Chapter 108 Draped in Exhaustion
109. Chapter 109 To Wake Beautifully
110. Chapter 110 Interrogation Under Heat
111. Chapter 111 To Be Kind
112. Chapter 112 Two
113. Chapter 113 Ways of Survival
114. Chapter 114 Worship in Hell
115. Chapter 115 Lost To It
116. Chapter 116 Scream for Me
117. Chapter 117 Pretty and Exposed
118. Chapter 118 To Be Made Ready
119. Chapter 119 Hold Tight to Kindness
120. Chapter 120 Wait to Kill
121. Chapter 121 Evidence
122. Chapter 122 Debts and Confessions
123. Chapter 123 Drown in Me
124. Chapter 124 Waters Below
125. Chapter 125 The Beauty of Hell
126. Chapter 126 Do I Hurt
127. Chapter 127 Tender Be Thy Devil
128. Chapter 128 Vows and Truces
129. Chapter 129 To Watch From Afar
130. Chapter 130 Shared Connection
131. Chapter 131 The Movement of Magic
132. Chapter 132 Alive. Alive. Alive.
133. Chapter 133 The Fight of The Beasts
134. Chapter 134 Between Cross & Water
135. Chapter 135 Gentle By The Hand
136. Chapter 136 Cherish
137. Chapter 137 To Be Undone
138. Chapter 138 Instinctual Rhythm
139. Chapter 139 Catch The Fire
140. Chapter 140 Fallen Aftermath
141. Chapter 141 Stupid Or Bold
142. Chapter 142 The Devil Sets The Board
143. Chapter 143 Knife At The Throat
144. Chapter 144 Mercy In Hell
145. Chapter 145 Even Gods Get Jealous
146. Chapter 146 Say My Name
147. Chapter 147 Pull and Break
148. Chapter 148 Sweet Dreams
149. Chapter 149 From The Shadows
150. Chapter 150 The Girl Between Fire and Shadow
151. Chapter 151 He Who Matters
152. Chapter 152 Hell Recognises
153. Chapter 153 Unusual Toture
154. Chapter 154 Your Flame & Mine
155. Chapter 155 To Own The Choice
156. Chapter 156 Screams of Hell
157. Chapter 157 The King Who Burns
158. Chapter 158 A Shadows Interruption
159. Chapter 159 The Shame That Burns
160. Chapter 160 Defiant Shadows
161. Chapter 161 Veiled Words
162. Chapter 162 Cold Confession
163. Chapter 163 Safety of Bones
164. Chapter 164 Targeted
165. Chapter 165 Twisted Want
166. Chapter 166 Reminders
167. Chapter 167 Show and Turn
168. Chapter 168 Creation of Art
169. Chapter 169 Devoted Heat
170. Chapter 170 Kneeling Worship
171. Chapter 171 Called Forth Thy Whore
172. Chapter 172 A Hellish Ritual
173. Chapter 173 A Show of Horns
174. Chapter 174 To Watch What Burns
175. Chapter 175 Becoming
176. Chapter 176 The Voyeur
177. Chapter 177 Leash and Law
178. Chapter 178 Picture of Desire
179. Chapter 179 The Wait Is Done
180. Chapter 180 Heaven & Hell Together
181. Chapter 181 A Dreams Warning
182. Chapter 182 A Gentle Breaking
183. Chapter 183 Lightning & Leather
184. Chapter 184 Pawns in the Game
185. Chapter 185 Teacher of the Flame
186. Chapter 186 A Wish For Freedom
187. Chapter 187 Broken Laws & Broken Chains
188. Chapter 188 An Empty Pit
189. Chapter 189 Demonstrate Disobedience
190. Chapter 190 Don't Touch, Don't Speak
191. Chapter 191 A Proclamation
192. Chapter 192 To Wake Under Weight
193. Chapter 193 What The Devil Notices
194. Chapter 194 Anomalies Fraught Memories
195. Chapter 195 Plans In Motion
196. Chapter 196 The Space Between Walls
197. Chapter 197 Regret Under Threat
198. Chapter 198 Without Walls
199. Chapter 199 Unworthy
200. Chapter 200 To Touch Unbidden
201. Chapter 201 Please Break Me
202. Chapter 202 The Meaning of Words
203. Chapter 203 Wrapped In Heat
204. Chapter 204 To Earn The Sound
205. Chapter 205 What The Devil Shares
206. Chapter 206 Settled & Waking
207. Chapter 207 Logic of Distance
208. Chapter 208 Words With Edges
209. Chapter 209 Wash The Shame Away
210. Chapter 210 Just Contact
211. Chapter 211 Safety of Shadows
212. Chapter 212 The Hollow Within
213. Chapter 213 The Weight of Flame
214. Chapter 214 Listen and Defend
215. Chapter 215 Lesson of the Flame
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