BLOOD AND ABSOLUTION
The warehouse district came up fast, dark buildings crouched low against a sky gone the color of an old bruise, and somewhere in the middle distance a single light burned over a loading dock, the only sign of life in a landscape built entirely out of shadow.
"There," Nico said, already braking, already reaching for the door handle before the car had fully stopped, the tires were still rolling when his hand found the release.
Mira was out before him, phone still pressed to her ear, Leo's ragged breathing the only sound she could hear over her own heartbeat, and she ran toward that single burning light with the specific, terrible clarity of a woman who understood, finally and completely, that