Midnight Crown
The city slid past the windows — rain-wet, wounded, full of competing hungers.
His phone buzzed. He checked it, typed four words, put it away.
“What happens tonight?” she asked.
Dom looked at the city, then at her. His hand found her knee — claiming, absent, the way other men drummed their fingers.
“Tonight,” he said, “the Widow learns that her accountant made a mistake. And while she’s deciding what to do about that — ” his thumb traced a slow circle against her knee, “ — we’ll already be somewhere she isn’t looking.”