ログイン"You're concerned about me now?" His head tipped, a small movement, careful, as though any larger one cost him. "Suddenly I matter?" "No." The word arrived with no escort and no manners. "What I feel about you is disgust. Pure, undiluted disgust, and it's happening right now, more intensely, becau
CELESTE The shooting thinned behind us, and then it was only the two of us breathing hard in whatever world we'd run into, his hand towing mine along at a pace that had no interest in my opinion about it. "Dominic." I called out the name as I told myself he must have gotten out of the building,
Julian's ruined face went flat, professional, almost bored. "Kill those two!" The order arrived and left on the same breath, and the men fired the moment it finished, and the noise was so total it stopped being sound and became weather. "No!" The word tore out of me. "No!" I watched the driv
The car changed its entire personality. She fought like the robe was on fire, twisting, tearing at it, and I hauled back on my end with everything the gas had left me, refusing to release a single thread. The woman's head wrenched back and forth like a bag of something valuable, her hands abandoni
CELESTE "Dominic... help me!" I mouthed and twisted around. The woman driving faced forward, serene, one finger tapping quietly on the wheel to a song only she could hear. She hadn't seen a thing. Maybe she simply couldn't believe I was still conscious, because the gas filling this car would hav
I glanced at the screen one last time. The call had already ended. So I turned toward the balcony, swung one leg and then the other over the railing, and began down, one rung at a time, the morning air cool through my dress sleeves, the pins in my hair ticking against the ladder with every step.







