Chapter 2“You left bruises. I left deeper ones. Come to the warehouse if you want to see which of us breaks first.”Rhys arrived at the Mercer warehouse at midnight with the marks from the stairwell still dark on his neck. The side door was unlocked. Inside, the space was wide, concrete-floored, and lit by a single hanging bulb that left most of the room in shadow. Vesper stood near a steel support column, already waiting, the same restless balance in her stance that she had carried on the rooftop and in the stairwell.“You came,” she said.“You left the door open again.”“I wanted to see if you would walk through it.” She pushed off the column and closed the distance. “Last night was a test but tonight I am not testing.”Rhys looked at the fresh scrape along her knuckles and the faint bruise at the corner of her mouth that had not been there when she left him. “You found another fight.”“I found a way to stay warm until you showed up.” Vesper stopped in front of him. “Take your shir
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