Chapter 57 The Cost of the Stair
Chris's POV
"They're not supposed to be able to climb this," Nell said, and it was the first time I had heard real fear in her voice, not the performed calm of the chair. "The Rooks can't. The superstition holds them. So if they're coming up, someone gave permission, and there's only a few people w...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Girl Who Didn't Belong
2. Chapter 2 Rules Nobody Explains
3. Chapter 3 The Notebook
4. Chapter 4 The President
5. Chapter 5 Room 113
6. Chapter 6 Someone Was Here
7. Chapter 7 Founder's Week
8. Chapter 8 The Warning
9. Chapter 9 The Legacy Game
10. Chapter 10 The Invitation
11. Chapter 11 Twelve Invitations
12. Chapter 12 The Oath
13. Chapter 13 First Challenge
14. Chapter 14 The Cost of Losing
15. Chapter 15 False Friends
16. Chapter 16 The Observer
17. Chapter 17 Blood Debts
18. Chapter 18 The Hidden Rule
19. Chapter 19 The Empty Seat
20. Chapter 20 Missing
21. Chapter 21 The Missing Name
22. Chapter 22 Family Day
23. Chapter 23 Father's Shadow
24. Chapter 24 The Forgotten File
25. Chapter 25 Blood Doesn't Lie
26. Chapter 26 The Hidden Heir
27. Chapter 27 The First Murder
28. Chapter 28 The Ford Legacy
29. Chapter 29 Murder Confirmed
30. Chapter 30 Blood Will Tell
31. Chapter 31 New Rules
32. Chapter 32 The Secret Vote
33. Chapter 33 The Tunnels
34. Chapter 34 The Watcher
35. Chapter 35 The Trap
36. Chapter 36 Cracks
37. Chapter 37 The Frame
38. Chapter 38 The Witness
39. Chapter 39 Ashes of Trust
40. Chapter 40 Guilty
41. Chapter 41 Round Three
42. Chapter 42 The Secret Alliance
43. Chapter 43 The Forgotten Winners
44. Chapter 44 Debt
45. Chapter 45 The Red Journal
46. Chapter 46 False Evidence
47. Chapter 47 The Sacrifice
48. Chapter 48 Betrayed
49. Chapter 49 The Vanishing
50. Chapter 50 The Final Betrayal
51. Chapter 51 What Nell Is
52. Chapter 52 The Memory Door
53. Chapter 53 The Headmaster's Hands
54. Chapter 54 The Father
55. Chapter 55 The Unwatched Room
56. Chapter 56 The One Who Climbs
57. Chapter 57 The Cost of the Stair
58. Chapter 58 The House That Was Safe
59. Chapter 59 Who Was in Marden
60. Chapter 60 The Thirteenth Chair
61. Chapter 61 The Weight of a Name
62. Chapter 62 The Brother Who Chose
63. Chapter 63 The Room Where the Copies Sleep
64. Chapter 64 Half a Truth
65. Chapter 65 The Thing That Follows
66. Chapter 66 The First Hundred Years
67. Chapter 67 The Weight of Knowing
68. Chapter 68 The People in the House
69. Chapter 69 Too Big to Erase
70. Chapter 70 What a Mother Keeps
71. Chapter 71 The Only Witness
72. Chapter 72 The Thread Pulled Tight
73. Chapter 73 The Back Field
74. Chapter 74 The Cost Counted
75. Chapter 75 The First Move Toward Them
76. Chapter 76 The Place They Keep Her
77. Chapter 77 The House by the Sea
78. Chapter 78 The Preference
79. Chapter 79 Which of Us
80. Chapter 80 The Last Nerve
81. Chapter 81 What the Holes Say
82. Chapter 82 The Word That Didn't Come
83. Chapter 83 The Drive Back
84. Chapter 84 The Chair That's Mine Now
85. Chapter 85 The Tower Empties
86. Chapter 86 The Girl Who Stayed
87. Chapter 87 Second Circle
88. Chapter 88 What the Car Was For
89. Chapter 89 The Ones Who Follow
90. Chapter 90 The School That Learned
91. Chapter 91 The Woman Who Wasn't Confused
92. Chapter 92 The Trail Before the Gate
93. Chapter 93 The Watcher on the Street
94. Chapter 94 The Aisle
95. Chapter 95 The Lesson
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