signed the merger cont

purity, but because she unde

. Made them forget there wa

e blood eas

o chatter. Just the sound of her heels echoing thro

f her penthouse. From forty-four stories above ground, the city looked l

once, a single

One C

t elim

herself one

A silent, bloodless assassination was carried out in a w

he beg

gned the death order on her family. Each had gone into hiding after t

ed the p

evil who'd walked

ack suit crisp, jaw sharper than truth. His body language

nravelin

but something in him

" she sai

're going to a fun

like I already

yes narrowed. "You al

le who pretend

truth, so she turned away, pi

the Southern Front Syndicate have reactivated. I s

row. "You know th

ing worth knowi

this time. Like a man watching a p

ay your backgro

did

cool and precise, while Cassian was occasionally curt and skeptic

ched him mo

n down. "Where the he

ed. "Law

ser. "I don't

two global corporations into submission, and written half the anti-c

I don't need belief, Mr.

le

e grinned. "You

e to that r

sagged slightly against the

con

ope over broken glass. She could never let her expression

were too cl

er, not in love, but in anger. When she wa

estate courtyard. Her hand had shaken.

lowered her hand gently, whisp

ated hi

nted him

ame a year later, s

dn't

known only as Malakai. They met in a nondescript basement bar where e

table. "Vale's running facial recognition. Old archive

mach cl

nd

someone might recognize your face fro

fell on a blurred black and white im

mory twisted

image,"

u s

I lose control of the narrative. L

ated. "You st

it sounded like

made him. I hate the

merger went public.

rnational: The Ris

ans, On

ous Partnership

poke to her duri

r, an elevator, a stage, Amara

s obvious tension between you two. How

smiled lik

. I just let him th

huckled b

he car, he said softly, "You

eath h

t be a ghos

dn't

lence was

something she hadn't

the ruins of the

ized property. Gutted. Ove

had a

twisted iron gates and walked th

steps we

ntain w

till smelled

r's study, she knelt and reac

closed aroun

d, was her fathe

d to the f

na

.V

ungs

ian

er had w

warning... or

t sleep t

ow, staring out at

n love and hate

her final target...

se, she would have to decide w