Chapter 49 What Power Smells Like
"The casualties from Tuesday are acceptable."
The voice came through Lorenzo's office speakers with the calm indifference of someone discussing weather. Seraphina, seated in the corner chair Lorenzo had positioned for her, felt the words land like stones in her chest.
"Define acceptable," another ...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Day They Erased Me
2. Chapter 2 Paper Gown, No Name
3. Chapter 3 The Replacement
4. Chapter 4 Two Million, Sight Unseen
5. Chapter 5 A Golden Cage
6. Chapter 6 The Man Who Bought Me
7. Chapter 7 Rules Without Bars
8. Chapter 8 A Name That Isn't Mine
9. Chapter 9 Three A.M.
10. Chapter 10 The Price of Being Alive
11. Chapter 11 The Account
12. Chapter 12 A Door Left Open
13. Chapter 13 Watched
14. Chapter 14 The Almost Kiss
15. Chapter 15 Withdrawal 1
16. Chapter 16 Withdrawal 2
17. Chapter 17 The Invitation
18. Chapter 18 Practice Wife
19. Chapter 19 Eyes Everywhere
20. Chapter 20 The Kiss
21. Chapter 21 Collateral
22. Chapter 22 What He Doesn't Say
23. Chapter 23 Alessandro's Version
24. Chapter 24 The First Lie
25. Chapter 25 Permission
26. Chapter 26 The Kiss That Means Something
27. Chapter 27 Access
28. Chapter 28 The Other Girls
29. Chapter 29 Alessandro's Offer
30. Chapter 30 The Truth Hurts
31. Chapter 31 Choosing the Fire
32. Chapter 32 The Document
33. Chapter 33 Signatures
34. Chapter 34 Equal
35. Chapter 35 Say It
36. Chapter 36 The Choice He Didn't Make
37. Chapter 37 Test Run
38. Chapter 38 Terms
39. Chapter 39 The Debt
40. Chapter 40 Fault Lines
41. Chapter 41 Exposure
42. Chapter 42 Marked
43. Chapter 43 The Wrong Kind of Silence
44. Chapter 44 "Alessandro Knows"
45. Chapter 45 "First Blood
46. Chapter 46 Aftermath
47. Chapter 47 Not a Drill
48. Chapter 48 The Lesson
49. Chapter 49 What Power Smells Like
50. Chapter 50 The Breach
51. Chapter 51 Stand Beside Me
52. Chapter 52 The Traitor Breathes
53. Chapter 53 The Test
54. Chapter 54 Cornered
55. Chapter 55 The Order
56. Chapter 56 After
57. Chapter 57 Ghosts Don't Stay Buried
58. Chapter 58 The Public Wife
59. Chapter 59 Smile
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