Deadly Game
"The Vance syndicate has spent years suffocating this city's underground, and they just tried to burn my sanctuary to the ground. I want their distribution lanes, I want their black-market connections, and I want Victoria Vance ruined. You want your empire secured. We have a common enemy."
Malakai stood perfectly still for a long, agonizing moment. The silence between us stretched, thick with a suffocating, electric tension. He took two slow steps toward the altar, closing the distance until I could smell the familiar, intoxicating scent of rain and expensive tobacco radiating off him.
"An alliance," Malakai murmured, his dark eyes locked onto my mask with a piercing intensity that made my h