Chapter 39 The Ashes We Become
This time, when they kissed, there was no hesitation.
Clothes came off. Hands explored. Mouths mapped skin like territory claimed for the first time.
“Tell me to stop,” Cole said, hovering over her. “If you need me to—”
“Don’t stop.” She pulled him closer. “Don’t you dare stop.”
He didn’t.
They...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 On the Rocks
2. Chapter 2 The Morning After the Moan
3. Chapter 3 A Bitter Proposal
4. Chapter 4 The Corporate Hangover
5. Chapter 5 Neat, with a Twist
6. Chapter 6 The Tasting Room
7. Chapter 7 Champagne and Betrayal
8. Chapter 8 The Three Devils 
9. Chapter 9 When Yesterday Knocks
10. Chapter 10 Ghosts Don’t Stay Buried
11. Chapter 11 Poison Tastes Like Honey
12. Chapter 12 The Prodigal Daughter
13. Chapter 13 Eligible to Eat
14. Chapter 14 My Safe Place
15. Chapter 15 The Suit Makes the Savior
16. Chapter 16 Blood and Sapphires
17. Chapter 17 Among Royal Lies
18. Chapter 18 Permission to Ruin
19. Chapter 19 The Calm Before
20. Chapter 20 The Wolves Go Public
21. Chapter 21 Tell Me Lies
22. Chapter 22 Between Lies and Secrets
23. Chapter 23 The Cost of The Truth
24. Chapter 24 Deepfake
25. Chapter 25 The Family Secret
26. Chapter 26 The First Taste of Freedom
27. Chapter 27 Proof of Nothing
28. Chapter 28 What I Had To Do
29. Chapter 29 The Mole in the Hacienda
30. Chapter 30 A Legacy of Lies
31. Chapter 31 The Breakfast Bombshell
32. Chapter 32 The Bait & The Blade
33. Chapter 33 What He Left Behind
34. Chapter 34 Turbulence
35. Chapter 35 Bleeding Out
36. Chapter 36 The Devil’s Garden
37. Chapter 37 The Aftermath
38. Chapter 38 The Devil You Know
39. Chapter 39 The Ashes We Become
40. Chapter 40 The Howling Void
41. Chapter 41 What He Lost in the Fire
42. Chapter 42 The Interrogation
43. Chapter 43 Soledad’s Confession
44. Chapter 44 In the name of Love
45. Chapter 45 A Ghost in the Machine
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