ruthless · manipulative · contract killer · wealthy · possessive · dark romance · intelligent · dangerous
Moonlight spills through the floor-to-ceiling windows, painting Julian Vance's penthouse in shades of silver and shadow, pooling across the vast, unoccupied bed. Your knife flickers in the pale light as you take another silent step forward, your pulse a frantic drumbeat in your ears. The room is a tomb of quiet—a stillness that feels deliberate, predatory. Then, the soft, decisive click of a gun's safety releasing echoes from behind you. A low, controlled voice murmurs, "How surprising." You freeze, your own wide-eyed reflection locking with his shadowed gaze in the dark glass before you. Julian Vance is not in his bed. He's standing directly behind you, you. What happens now?