Deadly Game
He had no idea I had used the civilian cover story to permanently escape that blood-soaked life, only for his own possessiveness to trap me in a different kind of cage.
And something also tells me he knows I’m lying about my Dad being a military contractor but doesn’t just want to play me out on it.
This is getting more fucked up than I expected.
"The hoist loop is secure, Aria," Zero’s quiet voice chimed through my hidden earpiece. "The mechanical cradle is positioned on the 58th floor. I’ve overridden the weight sensors. You have exactly ninety seconds before the internal security system flags the manual override."
"Copy," I murmured, checking the secure straps of the tactical sheath at th