Cinders Ashes Novels & Stories

“But this time… I’m the one with the knife.” She folded the report shut and placed it neatly in her drawer, locking it with a quiet click. Then she walked toward the window and pulled back the curtain. The city was alive beneath her, glittering like a thousand fragile lies. She was done being haunted. She wasn’t going to fall again. She would burn him slowly, elegantly, methodically until he had nothing left but regrets and the ruins of a kingdom he thought he built alone. And this time… She wouldn’t stop until the ashes bore her name.

LILA’S POV The Chicago skyline glittered through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the downtown club, but the Blizzard’s charity gala felt like a cage. My heels clicked on the polished marble, each step heavier than the last, as I scanned the crowd for Zane Callahan. The air pulsed with laughter, clinking glasses, and the low thrum of a live band, but my pulse drowned it all out. I didn’t want to be here. But Meredith’s ultimatum of getting Zane ‘s answers or kissing my job goodbye had forced me into this glitzy hell, and the weight of my forced engagement to Ethan Callahan crushed me further.

Chapter Thirteen – Ashes on the Road The road stretched endless beneath a bruised sky, dust curling into the air with each faltering step. Adrian’s boots ground against gravel and ash, dragging over ruins that had once been villages, homes, lives. Pain radiated from his ribs, the bullet graze still raw beneath the filthy bandages he had wrapped himself in. Every inhale flared like fire through his lungs.

“Your mate and child deserve respect.” “Cut the bloody riddles,” Caspian hissed coldly. “We didn’t come to Cinderbloom to be your entertainment or some puzzle for your magic tricks. We’ve got urgent business. Where do we find information about the Pyromancer who’s risen again?” Dren chuckled, the sound like stones grinding in a cave. “Patience, Alpha of the water territories. Cinderbloom is a city built on protocol and eternal fire. You can’t just knock on secret doors without going through the front gate first.”

I whispered, the words tasting like ash. I closed my eyes so I wouldn’t have to see their faces. I released the golden light. It was a soft, warm wave, a final mercy that felt like a betrayal. When the light faded and I opened my eyes, the space in front of me was empty. Five piles of fine white ash were all that remained of five heroes.

Hailey thought maddeningly as she spat at the revulsive chemical. It was the same smell she had perceived the last day in her past life, Hailey eyes scanned around and in a minute she saw a heap of ash on the floor, Hailey instantly knew that it was her body that had burned into ash by her merciless sister Ashley which was Cassidy in her present life, She could still feel the pain of body been burned when she was still perfectly alive, she could clearly remembered how Ashley had flickered on the lighter and threw it right on her fueled body, Tears flowed freely from her eyes as she thought of how she had lost her peace of mind in a day. she was still hovering over the thought when, the doors

But we needed to be quick and he already was on his feet, “We just need a spark.” My mind raced. “There are stones that we can use,” I rushed to grab the stones from the ground. Asher ripped the iron pendant from around his neck, the edges sharp. Then, dragging a jagged piece of stone from the floor, I put it in front of him as he slammed the two together. Spark. Nothing. Spark. Spark. I held my breath, my eyes going to the darkness where Phina sensed the vampires. “Asher…they are coming!” “Fuck,” Asher gritted his teeth giving his everything as the next a small flame flickered.

He patted her hand and pulled away before dashing towards the source of the stench. As she jogged, careful not to trip over branch and bramble, she had no shoes still after all. It was slower going than she’d have liked, she heard it. A high keening. It was that same, tinny sound that obviously wasn’t made by anything living she’d ever heard. The Dain howled in clear agony. Up ahead, in the fading gloam of predawn, something flared brightly like a star. Fire, bright like a beacon. Cinder was about to have his ‘fun’. Ignoring the thorns that bit at her bare feet, River dashed towards the spark of flame.

Hot enough to set paper aflame. He left scorching, smoking footprints on the floor with every step. Lily and Kael both took a step back. 【WARNING: S-Rank Boss, ‘The Ashen Revenant,’ has appeared. He was burned alive in a fire. He hates all living things. His ‘Flames of Retribution’ can burn even the soul to ash.】 But I smelled nothing. Felt no heat. To me, he just looked like some poor chimney sweep after a very, very bad day.

As Charles was pushed into the incinerator, Logan filmed the entire process and put it up on my social media page. However, there was no response. Logan’s patience ran thin. He spammed me with voice messages. “Coral, if you don’t show up now, I’ll dump your father’s ashes straight into the sewer. “You’ll never find him again. “This is your final chance to show yourself to me.” Logan had never sent me so many messages since Elise came into our lives. However, his attempts to communicate were met with silence. Time went by. Slumping against his bench, Logan clenched the phone in his hand.