LOGINThe cab pulled up in front of the Beaumont, and I paid the driver with a handful of crumpled bills and led Maya and Jasmine around the side of the building to the service entrance I had used earlier, the same route I had taken when I slipped out of the hotel what felt like a lifetime ago. The kitche
"Tasha has always been your favorite, right? I've seen it. All three of us are your friends. You met all of us at Big Bryan's. But you always treated Tasha differently, and I never complained about it, but now I need to know why. You used my name. You told Julian to take me instead of her. You wante
"Scarlett?" My name. The last thing he said before the darkness took him. I stood over his unconscious body and felt something that was halfway between satisfaction and disgust. For some reason, this victory tasted surprisingly similar to ash. I could kill him. The thought surfaced in my mind wi
I left them to finish getting ready and crept back to the living room, positioning myself behind the door where I could see Julian on the couch through the narrow gap between the hinges and the frame. He was still asleep, still snoring, still completely unaware that his carefully constructed prison
I sighed, the long-suffering sigh of a woman who had been sent on an errand by a man who did not appreciate her hard work. Hatchet-face was not buying it, I could see the skepticism hardening behind his eyes, but Baby-face was already relaxing, his hand typing in the code and unlocking the door,
The first guard made exactly that sound. I caught him before his head could strike the concrete, lowered him gently to the ground, and dragged his considerable bulk behind a stack of empty pallets that someone had left in the corridor. One down. Five to go. The second guard who was patrolling the







