Deadly Game
If Malakai detected a single hint of Aria in my posture, my breath, or my movements, the entire game would collapse.
Click.
The heavy wooden doors at the back of the Cathedral groaned open.
A tall, imposing silhouette cut through the mist of the rain outside, stepping into the sanctuary with an absolute aura of absolute authority.
Malakai Thorne.
He didn't look like a man walking into an ambush. He moved with the slow, terrifying confidence of an apex predator entering his own territory. His obsidian mask caught the dim moonlight, rendering his expression completely unreadable.
He stopped ten paces from the altar, his dark eyes locking onto me through the slits of his mask.