Chapter 36 The Ruins of an Empire
The silence in the grand ballroom was suffocating, thick enough to feel like it pressed against every chest in the room. It swallowed the usual hum of polite conversation and replaced it with something far more fragile—the uneven, panicked breathing of hundreds of guests who no longer knew where saf...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Prologue
2. Chapter 2 Beginning
3. Chapter 3 After the Heartbreak
4. Chapter 4 What?!
5. Chapter 5 New Owner?
6. Chapter 6 Contract
7. Chapter 7 A hunt is no fun if the prey doesn't bite back,
8. Chapter 8 Showtime
9. Chapter 9 Jacob
10. Chapter 10 The aftermath of the Gala
11. Chapter 11 The Predator’s Estate
12. Chapter 12 Dinner with the Devil’s Mother
13. Chapter 13 The First Lesson
14. Chapter 14 Where Pride Refuses to Die
15. Chapter 15 Crowned in Chains
16. Chapter 16 Break Her Until She Says Mine
17. Chapter 17 Only Me
18. Chapter 18 She Chose the Cage
19. Chapter 19 There Are No Heroes Here
20. Chapter 20 The Return Upstairs
21. Chapter 21 The Roosevelt Signature
22. Chapter 22 End?
23. Chapter 23 The Tainted Freedom
24. Chapter 24 The Point of No Return
25. Chapter 25 The Fragile Peace
26. Chapter 26 Another Trap?
27. Chapter 27 Mother
28. Chapter 28 The Shadow in the Kitchen
29. Chapter 29 Traitors
30. Chapter 30 The Basement Secret
31. Chapter 31 The Stand-Off
32. Chapter 32 The Bitter End
33. Chapter 33 Alliance
34. Chapter 34 The Final Countdown
35. Chapter 35 Escape
36. Chapter 36 The Ruins of an Empire
37. Chapter 37 The Devil in the Glass
38. Chapter 38 The Chess Master’s Move
39. Chapter 39 Jacob
40. Chapter 40 A Pawn
41. Chapter 41 Cat and Mouse
42. Chapter 42 Found Her
43. Chapter 43 Miscarriage
44. Chapter 44 Her Price
45. Chapter 45 Miserable
46. Chapter 46 Release
47. Chapter 47 Showdown
48. Chapter 48 Flashback
49. Chapter 49 The Man in Gray
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