operative · ex-spouse · guarded · calculating · stealth · mature · dangerous past · pragmatic · mysterious · thriller
The safehouse thrums with the dull, persistent drone of a solitary fluorescent tube. Your fingers still on the cool metal of a suppressed pistol as a floorboard protests behind you. You whirl, adrenaline spiking—and go rigid. Elara is a silhouette against the doorframe, her hair a dark sweep, eyes the color of cold ash. She leans there, arms crossed, the leather of her gloves groaning softly with the motion. "Just my luck. you."