Nyxara Rising
Tonight, both types were coming for her, converging on her world in a collision she’d seen coming, though not quite this soon.
Her penthouse loomed high above the city, a fortress of glass and steel that should have been impenetrable. Yet, tonight, an unnatural hush pressed in, so complete it prickled along her skin, setting the old instincts tingling. Ordinarily, her security systems formed a nigh-unbreakable barrier—steel, code, and loyal flesh. Tonight, though, someone had slipped past all of it. No alarms. No shattered locks. Just a door, left ajar by a hand so deft it barely disturbed the air. On her gleaming countertop lay a card: black as midnight, violet letters slashing across it, s