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HIRED TO COMMIT MURDER
Three miles across the city, Vivian Cross paced her apartment like a caged animal, phone clutched in white-knuckled hands.No call. No text. What was taking so long?It should be done by now. Quick, clean, over. Lily Morgan's death should be scrolling across news feeds, and Ethan should be devastated, and everything would finally be right again."Maybe we should call this off." Diane's voice was small, frightened. "This has gone too far.""Shut UP, Mother!" Vivian spun on her with venom. "I'm fixing OUR problem! The problem you created by raising me to marry that worthless—"Her phone rang. Unknown number.Vivian answered before the second ring. "Is it done?"Silence on the other end. Not empty silence but occupied silence—someone listening, evaluating, preparing."Is this Vivian Cross?" The voice was male, official, completely wrong.Ice flooded Vivian's veins. "Who is this? Where's Jackson?""This is Detective Morrison, FBI. We've been monitoring your phone calls, Ms. Cross. Wire tr
MAKE HER DEATH SLOW
Darkness swallowed Lily whole.Not the comfortable darkness of closed eyes or dimmed lights, but absolute black—thick and suffocating, pressing against her face like a living thing trying to force its way into her lungs.Her breathing echoed off concrete walls too close on either side, each gasp amplified into something that sounded like panic given voice. Behind the sealed wall, gunfire still erupted in muffled bursts—distant thunder promising storms she couldn't see but could feel in her bones.Lily's hands found rough concrete, fingers scraping against texture that was cold and unforgiving. She forced her legs to move forward even though every instinct screamed to turn back, to pound on the wall until Ethan opened it, to face death together instead of surviving alone.Her phone came out with trembling hands. She jabbed at the screen—no signal. Of course no signal. Underground, sealed in a tunnel built for escape, cut off from everything except the darkness and her own ragged breath
WALL OF FIRE
"This isn't a discussion." Ethan's voice was flat and final."The hell it isn't!" Her voice climbed toward breaking. "You just told me you'd tell me a lot of things if we survived—that requires BOTH of us surviving, you manipulative bastard!"Something flickered across Ethan's face—might have been amusement if they weren't currently being hunted by professional killers."Then survive." His hand found the hidden button she hadn't seen. "And I promise I'll be there to answer every question you have."The wall panel slid open with mechanical precision, revealing a tunnel that disappeared into darkness lit only by emergency lighting that cast everything in shades of red that looked too much like prophecy."Run." Ethan's hands found her shoulders, started pushing her toward the tunnel entrance with gentle insistence. "Don't stop until you reach the bunker. Marcus will meet you there. He'll get you out of the country if—""If you DIE?" Lily planted her feet, refusing to move despite the sou
IF We Survive Tonight
Ethan's shoulder slammed into Lily's sternum with enough force to drive them both sideways as the bullet that should have killed her buried itself in the wall where her head had been half a second ago.They hit the ground together in a tangle of limbs and adrenaline, and Ethan was already moving—rolling, dragging her with him behind the minimal cover of an overturned sofa that wouldn't stop armor-piercing rounds but might buy them three seconds to not die."MOVE!" His hand found a door she hadn't seen—servant entrance, narrow and dark and currently the only thing between them and execution. He kicked it open with violence that shattered the lock, yanked Lily through, slammed it shut behind them.The stairwell was concrete and shadows, spiraling downward into darkness that felt like drowning.They descended at a pace that was half running, half controlled falling—Lily's foot caught on a step and she stumbled forward, momentum carrying her toward a collision with stone that would break
BULLET AND SMOKE
"Don't." Lily's voice broke on the single syllable. "Don't say that.""Why?" Ethan closed the distance between them to nothing, and his eyes held things that terrified her more than assassins or death threats or any physical danger. "Because it's easier to hate me? Because then you don't have to admit you feel it too? Because if you acknowledge that what's between us is real, you can't keep pretending I'm just another person who destroyed you for profit?"Lily's hand moved before conscious thought—palm connecting with his cheek in a slap that was half fury, half desperation.But Ethan caught her wrist mid-swing this time, fingers closing around hers with gentle firmness that somehow felt more intimate than violence."No." His voice was barely above a whisper. "Not again. I let you hit me once because I deserved it. But I won't let you hurt yourself trying to hurt me."He held her hand between them, and suddenly they were too close—close enough that Lily could feel his breath, could se
IN A BEAUTIFUL CAGE
The cage was beautiful, Lily had to give Ethan that much.Silk curtains. Imported furniture. A bed that probably cost more than her first car. Everything designed to make imprisonment feel like luxury, to make surrender taste like safety.She paced the length of the guest room for the hundredth time in twenty minutes, each circuit bringing her back to the same inescapable truth—the windows were bulletproof glass thick enough to stop artillery, the door was reinforced steel disguised as mahogany, and the only exit led directly to Agent Harrison stationed outside like a very well-armed babysitter."This is insane," Lily muttered to walls that probably had listening devices embedded in the paint.A knock interrupted her spiraling."Ms. Morgan?" Harrison's voice carried through the door with military precision. "Mr. Cross will be here in twenty minutes. I suggest you prepare yourself."Lily stopped pacing, hands clenching into fists against her chest."I don't want to see him.""With resp
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