Chapter 36: The Name That Burns
— "Carmien Joinson, you've come at last?"
The voice echoed through the room, cold and hollow like a dried-up well—deep and sharp as the memories he had once buried in the nameless corners of his mind. It wasn’t harsh. It wasn’t hoarse. But the sound sliced like a blood-thin razor blade, carving stra...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1: The Blood Contract
2. Chapter 2: Moving into the Mansion
3. Chapter 3: Where Shadows Wait
4. Chapter 4: As Life Knocks Upon the Door
5. Chapter 5: His Child
6. Chapter 6: When the Call Came
7. Chapter 7: The Flame Beneath the Silence
8. Chapter 8: Cruelty in Silence
9. Chapter 9: Too Late for Redemption
10. Chapter 10: I Carried You Without Love
11. Chapter 11: The Letter Beneath the Dust
12. Chapter 12: The Scar Over His Heart
13. Chapter 13: The Glance That Shifted the Silence
14. Chapter 14: Petals and Pain
15. Chapter 15: A Fragment from That Year
16. Chapter 16 – The Man Who Held My Heartbeat
17. Chapter 17 – The Fracture Between Us
18. Chapter 18: The first flutter of emotions
19. Chapter 19 – Where Cracks Let the Light In
20. Chapter 20: Slumber and the Confession
21. Chapter 21: More Than Fabric
22. Chapter 22: A Step Closer
23. Chapter 23: His Past, My Present
24. Chapter 24: A Name Not Mine
25. Chapter 25: Warmth In The Midst Of Winter
26. Chapter 26: A Petal in the Evening Light
27. Chapter 27: The Child I’ll Never Hold
28. Chapter 28: The Echo of a Heartbeat
29. Chapter 29: His Coat, Her Smile
30. Chapter 30: Whispers Over the Line
31. Chapter 31: The Quiet Kind of Care
32. Chapter 32: Until I Can No Longer Wait
33. Chapter 33: Whispers Between Lavender and Lies
34. Chapter 34: A Silence That Hurts
35. Chapter 35: A Bloodstained Morning
36. Chapter 36: The Name That Burns
37. Chapter 37: The Marionette Without a Heart
38. Chapter 38: When the Game Bleeds
39. Chapter 39: The Promise That Survived
40. Chapter 40: Celeste
41. Chapter 41: Blood Code
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