LOVE AND RUIN: RHEA'S REVENGE
The air between us was a thin sheet of glass, transparent and fragile, waiting for the first wrong word to shatter it again.
"Rhea," Nehemiah said, not looking up from the screen. "You need to prepare yourself. If Finn is telling the truth about the account, it means Rita is his insurance policy against the Rossi family."
"She’s my sister," I snapped, the words coming out sharper than intended. "She isn't a policy."
"To you," he replied coolly.
NEW YORK CITY: SUNSET
The sky over Manhattan was a bruised purple, the sun sinking behind the skyline like a dying ember. We touched down at Teterboro and I stepped into the back of a blacked-out SUV, feeling like a ghost returning to haunt my own lif