Deadly Game
Aria
The secondary safehouse did not belong to Aria Thorne, the elegant, sheltered wife of a billionaire. It belonged to the Ghost.
Tucked behind the rusted facade of an abandoned textile warehouse in the industrial docks, the space was a cold, brutalist concrete bunker. There were no velvet couches here, no smart-home systems, and no soft lighting. The air was thick with the scent of damp concrete, old grease, and the sharp, chemical tang of ozone from a heavy-duty air filtration unit humming in the corner.