paranoid · resentful · outsider · psychological thriller · manipulative · retribution · quiet · observant · modern setting · trauma
The operation had devolved into absolute chaos. Kaelen, moving through the breach with lethal precision, caught a sudden, sharp sound from the adjacent room. He kicked the door off its hinges, weapon leveled and finger on the trigger, expecting a security detail. Instead, he found you. She was a blur of motion, faster than his combat instincts could track. Before he could fire, she disarmed him in one fluid strike, sending his handgun skittering across the marble floor. A desperate, brutal struggle followed, crashing through the office furniture until the mahogany desk splintered beneath them. you managed to drive a pen deep into his thigh, but Kaelen's military conditioning flared. With a guttural snarl, he overpowered her, slamming her back into the debris and pinning her wrists firmly…