All Chapters of THRONE OF FIRE &FAVORS,KING OF THE BLOCK : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

Time: 8:17 a.m. Location: Navarro Estate, Atlanta Weather: Cloudy, 74°FThe morning smelled like ash and lemons. Burnt sage still lingered in the hallway outside Jayce Navarro’s room, but beneath it, something colder remained—the scent of wet blood drying into cotton.Jayce stood shirtless at the tall window of his bedroom, watching the compound breathe. Men paced the outer fence with weapons holstered like second skins. The street was quiet, but too quiet. Like a mouth held shut in fear.He lit a cigar and pulled the curtain wider.Eli Mercer was in the courtyard, barefoot, wearing only joggers and a sleeveless tee. He moved like a shadow, steady, controlled. Not like someone recovering. Like someone preparing.Jayce watched him for a long time.It had been four days since Eli arrived. Four days since he bled on Jayce’s floor and didn’t flinch. Four days of silence, work, and wordless tension.He didn’t ask questions. He didn’t make phone calls. And that? That unsettled Jayce more

Time: 5:42 a.m. Location: Navarro Estate Gym Weather: Foggy, 68°FThe morning was mute, wrapped in fog like the city had secrets to hide.Eli moved through the gym with surgical grace—barefoot, gloved, sweat beading along his spine. Each jab at the bag was precise, silent, intimate. Like he wasn't fighting an opponent, but the ghost of someone who'd once said his name like a curse.Jayce leaned against the glass doorway, watching. He hadn’t slept. Couldn’t. His mind was full of broken memories and the strange calm that came from knowing someone else was haunted too.The sound of flesh hitting leather echoed like gunshots."You always train like you’re about to go to war?" Jayce asked, stepping inside.Eli didn’t pause. "I am.""With who?"Eli struck harder. "Memory."Jayce walked closer. "You losing?"Eli turned, face flushed, sweat dripping from his brow. "Not yet."Jayce held his gaze for a beat too long.Time: 6:12 a.m.Mama Inez poured tea into two glass cups, her hands steady a

Time: 6:47 p.m. Location: West End Cathedral (Abandoned) Weather: Drizzle, 72°FThe old cathedral groaned in the storm. Rain whispered across broken stained glass, a thousand fragmented saints bleeding color across the marble floor.Jayce Navarro lit a cigarette in the pulpit. He stood alone, soaked in shadows, his back to the crucifix.Eli entered through the side door, coat drenched, hair dripping, eyes unreadable."Holy place for a devil’s meeting," he muttered.Jayce exhaled smoke like confession. "We needed neutral ground. And ghosts prefer pews."Eli glanced up at the ceiling, vines creeping along its ribs. "Looks like God stopped listening."Jayce crushed the cigarette beneath his boot. "Maybe He never did."Time: 7:12 p.m. Location: Cathedral BasementCandles lined the old catacombs, casting long shadows on the cracked walls. A table stood at the center, and on it—files, maps, a burner phone.Jayce slid a file toward Eli. "Found this in Keon’s locker. A second phone. Burned

SCENE 1: THE BOY WHO DIDN’T BLEED RIGHTPOV: Eli MercerLocation: Valeburn — Funeral HomeTuesday morning broke on a city dressed in gray. It rained without thunder—just a steady drizzle like God was tired of yelling.The funeral parlor sat low and tired beneath the shadow of a liquor store and a crumbling church. Inside, the boy who had died behind the basketball court—seventeen, nameless to most—lay in a pine box too small for his unfinished story.Eli stood at the back. Hoodie up. Hands shaking.There were only four people present: a crying aunt, two strangers from the block, and Mama Inez—who sat in the front row, hands laced like prayer had grown thorns.He hadn’t known the kid. But that didn’t stop the guilt from biting.Mama Inez turned slowly and looked straight at him.> "Death got eyes now, Eli. And they watching you."He swallowed the scream that tried to crawl out his throat.---SCENE 2: KINGDOMS FALL ON QUIET DAYSPOV: Jayce NavarroLocation: Navarro Estate — War RoomJa

SCENE 1: WAKING TO WARPOV: Jayce Navarro | Location: Eli’s Apartment | Time: 5:12 AM | Weather: Cloudy DawnJayce woke to silence, the kind that follows a storm. Sheets tangled. Skin warm. Eli still asleep beside him, breath slow, a line of light painting his cheek like a bruise from God.Jayce rose quietly, shirtless, scarred, every movement whispering the weight of war.He stood at the window, watching Valeburn blink into day.Smoke curled on the horizon—some distant fire that wasn’t his. Yet.His phone buzzed.Unknown Number: “There’s a bounty on your head. And his.”Jayce didn’t flinch.He turned back to Eli and whispered, "Today, they’ll come for us. Let’s make sure they never leave."---SCENE 2: THE GRAVEYARD OF PROMISESPOV: Eli Mercer | Location: Old Tunnel Beneath Navarro Grounds | Time: 7:35 AMEli followed Naomi through the underground tunnel. Their boots echoed against ancient brick, shadows stretching like old secrets.“This used to be for moving drugs,” she said. “Now?