Chapter 4

Eight feet in a room full of witnesses was not a distance either of them could close cleanly.

Valentina kept her hand steady inside her jacket, finger resting along the frame instead of the trigger, waiting. Two hundred people stood between her and a clean line, buyers and brokers and men who'd paid good money to be seen tonight, and every one of them would remember a gunshot.

Reyes didn't send her to leave two hundred witnesses. Reyes sent her to leave one very specific message, and a crowded room wasn't where that message got delivered.

He hadn't drawn either.…