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The city never truly slept, especially not when blood ran hotter than reason. By the time Vincent Ashford’s arrest warrant hit the public sphere, his enemies cheered, but his loyalists stirred from their hiding places. Vincent wasn’t just a billionaire. He was a tactician. A shadow king. And as Grace stood on the balcony of Nathaniel’s penthouse, rereading his final message, she knew with chilling certainty:The game wasn’t over.Nathaniel joined her with two cups of tea. His movements were calm, precise, but she could sense the tight coil of tension beneath. “Still no word from the authorities?”Grace shook her head. “Interpol issued a red notice. The FBI raided two of his safe houses, but they were already empty.”Nathaniel glanced at her phone. “That message. He’s taunting us.”Grace looked over the city skyline, her voice distant. “He’s promising a final act.”Meanwhile, across the world in Marrakesh, a private jet sat idle at a secret runway. Inside, Vincent Ashford paced with th
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The morning sunlight filtered through Nathaniel’s penthouse windows, casting golden patterns on the silk sheets. Grace stirred, her hair tousled, her hand instinctively reaching out, but the space beside her was empty.“Nathaniel?” she murmured.A distant clink echoed from the kitchen. She sat up, heart still aching from the storm they'd unleashed on Vincent Ashford. But somewhere in that ache was also something new, liberation.She wrapped the duvet around her and stepped into the living room.Nathaniel stood barefoot by the counter, pouring coffee, his expression unreadable. His phone lay facedown beside him, tension lining his shoulders.“You’re up early,” she said, brushing her hair back.He turned. His eyes met hers, tender, but shadowed.“I found something,” he said, sliding his phone toward her.Grace blinked, picking it up. A photo filled the screen, grainy but clear. A woman, maybe late forties, walking briskly through a quiet marketplace in Monaco. Dark glasses, a silk scarf
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The late afternoon sun bathed the Ashford Estate in hues of orange and gold, but inside the mansion, tension simmered like an untamed flame. Grace’s fingers trembled as she re-read Nathaniel’s reply on her phone.Come to the greenhouse. It’s safe. And Grace… thank you for trusting me again.She didn't know what she expected, anger, indifference, maybe even silence. But Nathaniel had responded with warmth and urgency. And somehow, it steadied her.The greenhouse sat on the far end of the estate, a sanctuary hidden behind hedges of lavender and thorny roses. She remembered going there as a child, watching her mother clip herbs while her father hummed old jazz tunes. She hadn’t stepped foot there in years.But as she approached, a soft glow from within pulsed like a beacon.Inside, the scent of damp earth and jasmine wrapped around her. Nathaniel stood near the orchid section, dressed in a dark blue button-down, sleeves rolled up, chest rising and falling with visible tension. But when h
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The golden rays of dawn spilled across the sprawling gardens of the Ashford Estate, illuminating the dewdrops on the manicured hedges like scattered diamonds. Birds chirped lazily in the distance, and the scent of blooming lavender drifted through the crisp morning air.Grace stood by the floor-to-ceiling window of her bedroom, wrapped in an ivory silk robe, her arms folded tightly across her chest. She hadn't slept much. Not after what she had overheard last night.Whispers. Secrets.She replayed the conversation in her mind: Vincent Ashford on the phone, speaking in hushed tones about a sealed agreement and a woman named Clarisse. A name Grace had never heard before. Yet the way Vincent had said it, cold, calculated, made her stomach twist.Who was Clarisse? And what agreement had he made?Her phone buzzed on the nightstand.A text from Nathaniel.Meet me by the rose garden. Ten minutes. I need to talk to you… privately.Her heart jumped. She quickly glanced at the clock, 6:42 AM. W
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Cassia had never heard a sound like that before.It wasn’t a scream. Not a wail. It was the guttural release of years, no, decades of stolen life spilling from a single breath.Her twin sister knelt in the ashes of Flamevale’s ruined square, her shoulders trembling, the fire that once obeyed her now retreating into the soot.Cassia didn’t speak. She didn’t move.She let the girl cry.Let her body shake, fists pound into gravel, teeth grit so hard they bled.This wasn’t the enemy. This was her.Another her.“I don’t even know my name,” the girl finally whispered. “He calls me Flameborne. Or Daughter. Or Weapon. But never… never anything soft.”Cassia’s heart broke in a way she didn’t know was possible.She reached out, hesitant. Her hand hovered over the girl’s ash-coated shoulder.“Then let me name you,” Cassia said gently.The girl looked up. Her eyes, once molten and merciless, were now just eyes, lost, afraid, hopeful.“Name me?” she rasped.Cassia nodded. “You were born beside me.
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The rain hadn’t touched Ashford in weeks.But Nova knew storms came in many forms, and the one circling Cassia’s path wasn’t weather. It was legacy.She stood on the upper balcony of the estate, watching as the sky refused to break. Her fingers curled around the stone railing. Somewhere out there, her daughter was chasing truths Nova had buried for years.Maybe too many.Behind her, Liam stepped out, barefoot, a soft towel over his shoulder and that same look in his eyes, part concern, part knowing.“She’s still not back,” he said gently.Nova didn’t answer right away. She could still feel the residue of flame in the salt air. Cassia had awakened something. Nova had felt it. Every Emberborn did.“I think it’s time,” she finally said.Liam moved closer. “Time for what?”“For me to tell her what I swore I never would.”Flashback, Eighteen Years AgoNova stood in the middle of the High Chamber in robes soaked with ash. The childbirth had nearly killed her, not because of the delivery, bu
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The fire had long since died to embers. The salt air curled through the camp like a ghost, brushing Cassia’s skin as she lay awake under the open stars. Seryna slept soundly beside her, curled under a dark fur cloak, and Rhian kept watch on a nearby boulder, his silhouette sharp against the moonlit sea.But Cassia didn’t sleep. Not yet.The vision had returned. Stronger this time.Not in dreams, but while she was awake.A sudden flicker in the saltfall’s mist had shown her a face. His face.The man who had stared at her through the mirror in her dream now appeared again, his features shifting between flame and shadow. His voice whispered through her skull like fire cracking over wood.“You were never meant to be raised by mortals.”Cassia’s fingers dug into the earth.She hated how much it shook her.But worse, how much of it felt… familiar.“You’re still up.”Rhian’s voice pulled her from the silence. He walked over, careful not to wake Seryna, and crouched near her.“You’ve barely b
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Nova didn’t sleep that night.She paced the east tower long after the rest of Thornhaven had gone quiet, her bare feet whispering over the cold stone floor. The war council had ended hours ago. The alliances were forming. The Houses were aligning behind Cassia.But her mother’s heart was uneasy.Cassia had spoken with the voice of a queen. Of a visionary. Of a warrior. She had stood before ancient Houses and not flinched. She had owned her fire. Claimed her legacy. Inspired even the cold-blooded Kaelen Velstra to ride with them.But Nova couldn’t shake the image of her daughter as a baby, wrapped in silk, eyes glowing, her cries little more than warm steam in the winter air.Now that baby stood at the center of a war that Nova had spent half her life trying to outrun.“She’s stronger than we ever were,” a voice said behind her.Nova turned.Liam stood at the threshold, still wearing his day armor, though the blade at his hip had been unbuckled. His dark hair was tousled from the wind,
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The thunder rolled in Thornhaven long before the storm touched its gates.Liam stood on the western balcony of the High Hall, the same one where he’d once watched Nova walk away from him with fire in her veins and secrets in her eyes. But now, it wasn’t Nova that kept his gaze locked on the horizon.It was the war that was coming.Not a war of lands or gold or pride.A war of bloodlines.And at the center of it was Cassia, his daughter, his miracle, his curse. The very embodiment of everything he and Nova never asked for, yet everything they would die to protect.He heard her footsteps before she reached him.Nova.She stepped beside him, not saying a word, just watching the clouds churn above the Vale.“She didn’t sleep much,” Nova finally said, her voice low.“Seryna?” Liam asked.“Cassia.”He nodded. “She feels it too, doesn’t she?”Nova’s jaw clenched. “She’s not a child anymore, Liam. We can’t protect her the way we did when she was in the crib.”Liam turned to her, eyes burning
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