The city had barely opened its eyes when Sophia Benedetti stepped onto Via Marquez and saw him waiting again. He was leaning against the old fountain across from the bakery,...
At 8:52 p.m., Xavier Rossi saw the exact moment a city decided it was time to eat its king. It happened under soft amber light and crystal chandeliers so expensive...
The sound was not loud. That was what made it so disturbing. In a place like Lakuron, everything noisy had already been designed out of existence. The cutlery was heavy...
The first sign of danger was not the whiskey. It was the politeness. Sophia Hayes had worked enough charity galas, donor dinners, and private fundraisers to know that the most...
The boy looked too expensive to be standing alone in my part of town. That was my first thought when I saw him under the dead convenience store awning, soaked...
By the time the fourteenth nanny ran crying through the DeLuca penthouse, nobody even tried to stop her. The guards by the private elevator did not look surprised. The butler...
“Don’t you ever touch my son.” Lincoln did not raise his voice when he said it. He did not need to. The diner went dead so fast it felt as...
The joke should have ended the moment he said my name into the phone. Instead, it became the kind of mistake that changes two lives and embarrasses an entire room...
By the time the old man rose from his booth, the entire diner already felt like a place where bad things happened. It was one of those brutal Nevada afternoons...
“Get out now.” May Ellie Dawson did not raise her voice when she said it. She did not need to. At seventy one, she had learned that the quietest words...