Deadly Game
"Aria, you've got two Vance enforcers coming around the corner of the container stack. They're heavily armed."
"Copy that," I whispered.
I didn't draw my firearm. In close quarters, the noise would bring the entire terminal down on my head. Instead, my hand instinctively reached for the small of my back, my fingers wrapping around the familiar, leather-wrapped hilt of my signature weapon.
A heavy, double-edged dagger with an intricate, obsidian-plated crossguard shaped like a weeping willow leaf. It was perfectly balanced, weighted for flawless, silent execution. The blade was forged from a darkened titanium alloy that didn't reflect a single stray beam of light.