All Chapters of Deadly Game: Chapter 11 - Chapter 13

AriaThe neon sign of the hourly motel buzzed erratically outside the window, casting a sickly green glow over the peeling wallpaper. I didn't care about the grime. I didn't care about the rain leaking through the window pane. I only cared about the black titanium drive sitting next to my portable terminal.My fingers were flying across the mechanical keyboard, the rapid-fire clicking the only sound cutting through the damp room.I was entirely on my own now. Zero was gone. Leaving him at the canal bank had been the hardest thing I’d done since escaping Malakai, but I couldn’t afford a partner whose loyalty was bought by the Vance syndicate—even if he claimed he had changed his mind because he loved me. In our world, love was just a vulnerability waiting to be exploited.Access Denied. Security Protocol 9-Alpha Triggered."Damn it, Kai," I whispered, slamming my palm against the desk.The encryption on the drive Malakai had given me at the cathedral was a literal labyrinth. It wasn't

AriaThe basement of the rundown safehouse on the edge of the industrial district smelled of damp concrete, old iron, and dust. It was perfect. No cameras, no biometric grids, and completely off the Thorne and Vance maps. I had spent the last forty-eight hours setting it up, anchoring a heavy steel chair to the floorboards and checking the strength of the reinforced leather restraints.Tomorrow was Malakai’s wedding day.Every billboard in the upper city was flashing the news of the rushed Thorne-Vance corporate marriage. Victoria Vance thought she had finally cornered the devil. She thought she was going to walk down the aisle, sign the asset merger, and bleed Malakai’s empire dry.She didn't know the bridegroom was never going to make it to the altar.My burner phone buzzed on the concrete ledge. I swiped it open. A secure, heavily encrypted channel connected automatically."The security perimeter around the Vance wedding venue is tight, Vesper," a familiar, quiet voice rasped throu