VELVET DOESN'T BRUISE THE SAME
(POV: Ava)
The ceremonial wing was empty.
No guards.
No Committee staff.
No Leon.
Just glass and stone and murals of women no one remembered — their faces immortalized, their names erased, their eyes always watching.
I stepped inside barefoot.
Velvet in hand.
Not the collar.
Not this tim...
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Chapters
1. THE DEVIL IN DISGUISE
2. THE FIRST YES
3. TERMS OF OBEDIENCE
4. OWNED
5. THE COST OF OBEDIENCE 
6. THE GIRL BEHIND THE GLASS
7. RED RIBBONS AND UNSPOKEN RULES
8. A CALL FROM THE PAST
9. THREE LIES AND A SECRET
10. THE COLLAR AND THE CAGE
11. HIS NAME ON MY SKIN
12. TORN PAGES AND TRIGGER WARNINGS
13. ROSES AND RAZOR BLADES
14. WHEN SHADOW BLOOM
15. THE PRICE OF TOUCH
16. PAPER SAINTS AND DEAD GODS
17. THE HOUSE HE BUILT FROM FIRE
18. A KNIFE NAMED VICTOR
19. THE VELVET WAR
20. GLASS CEILINGS AND OPEN WOUNDS
21. THE LEASH YOU ASKED FOR
22. THE GIRL IN THE CHOKER
23. LESSONS IN LEVERAGE
24. PAPER DAGGERS AND VELVET LIES
25. THE TASTE OF HIS WORLD
26. A VOICE IN THE MIRROR
27. THE EX-FIANCE'E'S WARNING
28. BLINDSIDED
29. THE RIBBON AND THE BLADE
30. THE RED STRING
31. VICTOR'S MIRROR
32. THE CEREMONY OF NO ONE
33. WHERE THE KNIFE RESTS
34. THE THINGS THAT DON'T BURN
35. THE KNIFE BESIDE THE WINE
36. VELVET DOESN'T BRUISE THE SAME
37. THE CONTRACT THEY NEVER SHOWED YOU
38. THE FLAME THAT LISTENS
39. WHEN SILENCE BECOMES A LANGUAGE
40. THE BLOOD THAT SPEAKS FIRST
41. FRACTURES IN THE MIRROR
42. WHEN THE FIRE LEARNS TO SPEAK
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