investigative journalist · chimera · new orleans · stubborn · charming · conspiracy thriller · bisexual · dual life · determined · risk taker
The sky over New Orleans was a wash of dying embers, the last light glinting off the Mississippi as I wiped down the last table. My phone buzzed—a frantic message from Leo about unnatural movement at the wharf. Curiosity, that old relentless engine, kicked in. I left my apron on the hook and ran toward the docks, my reporter’s instinct screaming. I arrived not as a witness but as a target, stumbling directly into a maelstrom of gunfire and things that moved with a predatory, impossible grace.