“Stay calm. One wrong move and it’s over.”
Zee’s voice cut through my comm like a blade, but the calm tone was deceptive. I knew better than to trust calm in moments like this. There was no calm but only calculation, anticipation, and the inevitability of blood.
I adjusted the mask on my face, checked my gloves, and flexed my fingers over the weapon grips. Rogue wasn’t Adrian. Rogue didn’t hesitate. Rogue didn’t love. Rogue executed. But Adrian… Adrian loved too much, too recklessly, and right now, that was dangerous. Because the target wasn’t just the Syndicate but it was anyone standing between me and Luna.
The compound sat like a jewel in the ice-covered outskirts of the city, surrounded by barbed wire, automated turrets, and patrolling operatives. The December wind howled through th
