CHAPTER 97: THE HEIR OF ASHES.
POV: Serena
The morning doesn’t rise so much as crawl. Smoke blurs the horizon, the kind that clings to lungs and memories. I walk through what’s left of the Vatican’s outer walls, ashen mosaics, scorched marble and the skeletal remains of saints carved into stone.
The air still hums with fire....
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Ghost in Heels
2. Chapter 2: The Devil’s Bargain
3. Chapter 3: Vows in Blood
4. Chapter 4: Fire & Chains
5. Chapter 5: The Second Shadow
6. Chapter 6: Tame the Flame
7. Chapter 7: The Devil’s Widow
8. Chapter 8: Dinner with the Devil
9. Chapter 9: The Mother Ghost.
10. Chapter 10: Predator’s Confession
11. Chapter 11: Bound in Fire
12. Chapter 12: A Taste for Blood
13. Chapter 13: The Judas Within
14. Chapter 14: The Caged Flame
15. Chapter 15: The Devil You Knew
16. Chapter 16: The Other Woman
17. Chapter 17: Chains of Betrayal
18. Chapter 18: The Price of Her Blood
19. Chapter 19: Her Father’s Sins
20. Chapter 20: The Devil’s Choice
21. Chapter 21: A Bride in Chains.
22. Chapter 22: The Devil at the Gates
23. Chapter 23: The Pact of Monsters
24. Chapter 24: Chains of Ice and Fire
25. Chapter 25: Blood of the Unforgiven
26. Chapter 26: The Devil’s Ultimatum
27. Chapter 27: Blood for Blood
28. Chapter 28: Chains of Truth
29. Chapter 29: Vows in Ashes
30. Chapter 30: The Devil You Bleed For.
31. Chapter 31: The Bloodline Gambit
32. Chapter 32: Seventy-Two Hours to Ruin
33. Chapter 33: Intimacy as a weapon.
34. Chapter 34: Blood in the Snow
35. Chapter 35: The Knife Between Us
36. Chapter 36: The Shadow Who Knows Your Pulse
37. Chapter 37: The Siege in the Snow
38. Chapter 38: Splintered in the Snow
39. Chapter 39: The House of Mirrors
40. Chapter 40: The Road of No Return
41. Chapter 41: The Eleven-Hour Knife
42. Chapter 42: The Blood Tithe
43. Chapter 43: The Sister in the Gate
44. Chapter 44: The Sanctum’s Outer Skin
45. Chapter 45: Blood in the Dark
46. Chapter 46: The Bridge of Betrayals
47. Chapter 47: The Chamber of Echoes
48. Chapter 48: The Fire’s Demand
49. Chapter 49: The Last Flame.
50. Chapter 50: The Ashes Between Us
51. Chapter 51: Brother’s Betrayal
52. Chapter 52: Masquerade of Blood
53. Chapter 53: The Chalice Betrayal
54. Chapter 54: Blood Crown.
55. Chapter 55: Throne of Ashes
56. Chapter 56: The Devil’s Countdown
57. Chapter 57: Blood in the Veins
58. Chapter 58: Blood for Blood
59. Chapter 59: The Enemy Within
60. Chapter 60: The Devil Strikes Back
61. Chapter 61: The Map of Blood
62. Chapter 62: The Rome Bait.
63. Chapter 63: Blood in the Eternal City.
64. Chapter 64: The Vatican Walls
65. Chapter 65: The Council’s Summons.
66. Chapter 66: The Devil Before the Tribunal
67. Chapter 67: The Tribunal’s Chains.
68. Chapter 68: Kneel or Burn
69. Chapter 69: Chains of Fire.
70. Chapter 70: The Devil’s Gambit.
71. Chapter 71: Blood on Marble.
72. Chapter 72: The Devil’s Answer
73. Chapter 73: The City That Burns with Us
74. Chapter 74: The Devil’s Counter curse.
75. Chapter 75: The Devil’s Wife.
76. Chapter 76: The Devil’s Ultimatum.
77. Chapter 77: The Vatican’s Shadow
78. CHAPTER 78: THE DEVIL’S TERMS.
79. CHAPTER 79: THE VATICAN TABLE.
80. CHAPTER 80: THE CONFESSION.
81. CHAPTER 81: THE DEVIL’S AFTERMATH.
82. CHAPTER 82: THE KNIFE BETWEEN US.
83. CHAPTER 83: THE DOCK’S CONFESSION.
84. CHAPTER 84: THE SAFEHOUSE.
85. CHAPTER 85: THE WAR THAT LOVES NO ONE.
86. CHAPTER 86: THE FIRE IN OUR SHADOWS.
87. CHAPTER 87: THE SHEPHERD’S REVELATION.
88. CHAPTER 88: THE GHOST IN HER VEINS.
89. CHAPTER 89: THE DEVIL’S REIGN.
90. CHAPTER 90: THE SHEPHERD’S VAULT.
91. Chapter 91: The Ruins and the Father’s Shadow.
92. CHAPTER 92: THE FATHER’S THREAT.
93. CHAPTER 93: THE VINEYARD RECKONING.
94. CHAPTER 94: THE VOW IN ASHES.
95. CHAPTER 95: THE SHEPHERD’S RESURRECTION.
96. CHAPTER 96: THE BASILICA INFERNO.
97. CHAPTER 97: THE HEIR OF ASHES.
98. CHAPTER 98: THE DISCIPLE’S WAR.
99. CHAPTER 99: THE LAZARUS CODE.
100. CHAPTER 100: THE DEVIL’S MERCY.
101. CHAPTER 101: THE DEVIL BLEEDS.
102. CHAPTER 102: THE PROPHET’S REIGN.
103. CHAPTER 103: THE PROPHET’S ULTIMATUM.
104. CHAPTER 104: A War Written in Her Name.
105. CHAPTER 105: THE EAST GATE REVOLT.
106. CHAPTER 106: A Threat Carved into Blood.
107. CHAPTER 107: The Box on the Windshield.
108. CHAPTER 108: The Man Beyond the Fence.
109. CHAPTER 109: The Photo on the Gate.
110. Chapter 110: The Day the War Began.
111. CHAPTER 111: The First Leak.
112. CHAPTER 112: THE FIRST OFFER.
113. CHAPTER 113: THE SECOND MESSAGE.
114. CHAPTER 114: The Edge of the Blade.
115. CHAPTER 115: The Devil in the Dark.
116. CHAPTER 116: The Man Who Waits.
117. CHAPTER 117: The Apartment.
118. CHAPTER 118: The Man She Feared.
119. CHAPTER 119: The Message in the Smoke.
120. CHAPTER 120: The Third Message.
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