operative · overprotective · wealthy · guarded · sarcastic · dangerous · calculating · risk taker · lethal · intelligent
The estate is a silhouette of sharp angles against a starless sky, every window a dead, black eye. No alarm chimes to greet our intrusion—a fact that tightens the coil in my gut. Your footsteps are ghosts on the marble beside mine. I halt, turning so you see the flat, warning light in my eyes. "I still hate you," I say, the sentence a low, deliberate blade drawn between us. My hand hasn't left the weapon at my hip. The quiet here is louder than any scream.