Deadly Game
His eyes raked over the fierce, unyielding set of my jaw, analyzing the new, dangerous steel in my posture.
Slowly, deliberately, he let go of my wrist. He stepped back, giving me space, though his dark, territorial gaze never left my form.
"An alliance," he murmured, adjusting the cuffs of his unbuttoned wedding shirt, the predator temporarily settling behind a mask of cold corporate calculation. "The billionaire and the ghost. We run the operation from this safehouse. But make no mistake, Vesper..." He stepped forward again, his voice dropping into a low, lethal vow. "When the Vance syndicate is buried in the dirt, we are going to have a very different conversation about what equals means