PART 9: She followed the smell to the kitchen where Lucian stood at the counter with his back to her, still in yesterday’s shirt, sleeves pushed to…

PART 8: It rang once. “Where are you?” Not a question. Seline’s voice at 6:00 in the morning had the particular quality of someone who had been…

PART 7: The jacket was gone. He was holding something. Her phone, she realized, connected to a cable charging. I thought you’d want it when you woke…

PART 6: Initially, she said back. Ava, don’t. She set the ice down carefully, because her hands wanted to do something else with it, and she was…

PART 5: His voice stayed level through all of it. But there was something underneath the level. A pressure, an old pressure that she could hear. That’s…

PART 4: He looked at her now with an expression that she’d never seen on him before. Or maybe she had and had simply refused to name…

PART 3: A woman in a raincoat holding a mic in front of a camera operator who was very definitely filming. “Don’t look at them,” Lucian said,…

PART 2: I know you’re down here, the first voice said, not to his friends, to her. His tone had changed. The annoyance was still there, but…

“Can You Come Get Me?” Beaten at the Subway, She Dialed Her Secret — The Mafia Boss Arrived at 2 A.M   She’s fleeing her own sister’s…