Off Limits
"And business is currently in flux. Isn't that right, Garrison?"
He turned his gaze to me, the curiosity in his eyes sharpening into something harder, more calculating. "Phoebe. You look... transformed. A new look for a new life?"
"A new look for a final act," I said, my voice smooth, cool, and entirely unyielding.
The air between us felt thin, charged with a tension that was audible, a low-frequency hum of impending violence.
Garrison was the predator, the man who had built his life on the ruins of others. He thought he was playing against a machine. He thought he was playing against a victim.