LOGINJulian'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.
Something in me stopped being afraid and started being Ford-adjacent. "What are you trying to do? My bodyguards are outside. You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into. They won't let you walk away from whatever you're planning." She smiled without any part of her face agreeing to it. "Th
"Hey, baby." "Hey, beautiful. What are you doing?" "Getting ready to be married in public to the love of my life." I imagined his face immediately breaking out in a smile. "Well, I'm bored over here. I feel like coming to see you." I laughed so hard the hairstylist steadied my shoulder. "Yo







