the tablet on th

visual ma

mera in the alley behind the hotel. A woman in a red dress was climbi

is

ess. B-list. Cur

anufactured way. It lacked the mystery of the

g her

hat night, yes-running from a raid on an illegal poker game on t

looking at her like she was

id, sliding the hundred-do

nfusion warring with greed in her eyes

king the sharp irony of the woman who had place

Julian said. "Two

d. "I ca

black Amex card onto the table next to the bill.

as she reached f

said coldly. "And because I owe

Her legs were draped over the leather seat of a

sound of breaking glass sha

" He shoved his phone in Sienna's face. "That little tram

st her foot. She sat at the kitchen table, peeling an

e doorway. "She doesn't have the looks,

or hissed, leaning over Sienna, "then st

up. The knife

said, her voice dropping an octave, "wh

ped and rai

tilted the knife slightly,

a's eyes-a flat, reptilian stillness-that m

my sight," E

apple. She walked out the back

ibrated. A

: $3.5 Million.

idnight" gown, had

onged to the Ghost, to the organization she had built from the ashes of her mother's ruin. Using it would trigger forensic audits, exposing th

s crisp and sour. She looked at Ivy

" she whispered. "The c