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The Devil's Collateral
  1. 1. The Hour of Reckoning
  2. 2. The Devil's Collateral
  3. 3. The Cage of Obsidian
  4. 4. Gears and Bloodlines 🔒
  5. 5. Monaco by Midnight 🔒
  6. 6. The Salle Médecin 🔒
  7. 7. Ambush on the Quayside 🔒
  8. 8. The Velvet Stateroom 🔒
  9. 9. The Aegean Passage 🔒
  10. 10. The Master Lock Wheel 🔒
  11. 11. The Santorini Anchorage 🔒
  12. 12. Betrayal in the Blue Domes 🔒
  13. 13. Starlight on the Caldera 🔒
  14. 14. The Alignment of Solstice 🔒
  15. 15. The Venetian Fog 🔒
  16. 16. The Palazzo Contarini 🔒
  17. 17. Blood on the Grand Canal 🔒
  18. 18. Extraction and Crossfire 🔒
  19. 19. The Safehouse in Giudecca 🔒
  20. 20. The Heat of the Lagoon 🔒
  21. 21. The Quantum Uplink 🔒
  22. 22. Passage to the Aegean Fortress 🔒
  23. 23. The Siege of Isla de la Muerte 🔒
  24. 24. Breaching the Sea Caves 🔒
  25. 25. The Vault of Sovereign Gold 🔒
  26. 26. Volkov's Last Standoff 🔒
  27. 27. Carnal Vows in the Ruins 🔒
  28. 28. The Fall of the Syndicate 🔒
  29. 29. The Return to Venice 🔒
  30. 30. Burning the Collateral Contract 🔒
  31. 31. Exoneration on the Rue de la Paix 🔒
  32. 32. The Grand Horological Exhibition 🔒
  33. 33. A Proposal in Liquid Gold 🔒
  34. 34. The Wedding on the Obsidian Sovereign 🔒
  35. 35. Dynasties Reborn 🔒

Chapter 5

Monaco by Midnight

The Devil's Collateral · Vera St. James · 5 min read

For three days, Isla worked eighteen hours a day in the subterranean workshop of *The Obsidian Sovereign*, her world narrowing to the microscopic radius of brass teeth, jewel bearings, and micrometer calipers. She cut two of the missing reduction gears from phosphor bronze ingots, her hands black with cutting oil and metal dust. Nikolai had kept his word: he provided every tool she requested, and several times a day, he…

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