The emergency stairs were old, rusted from years of flood moisture seeping up from below. Their footsteps echoed off metal and concrete as they descended into growing darkness. Every few floors, emergency lights cast sickly blue patches in the gloom. "They're following the security alerts," Ciara said, her voice low. "Starting from the top floor, working down. Fifteen floors cleared so far." "How many teams?" "Three. Heav...

Sleep wasn't coming. Jace stood at his apartment window, watching security drones cut through the pre-dawn darkness like hungry insects. More of them than usual. All heading toward the financial district. He thought back to the crazy escape he and Ciara had made from his office and couldn’t help but think the activity was because of them. His apartment took up half the 40th floor of what used to be luxury condos. Now it w...

The club twisted and folded back on itself, a maze of shadows and noise stitched together with flickering neon and the kind of energy that prickled at the base of your neck. It felt alive, like a creature thrumming in the depths of some dark ocean. Overhead, relics from before it all went sideways clung stubbornly to their places—ceiling fans that hadn’t spun in decades and chandeliers weathered to crusty fossils, barnacl...

As Eddie and Lyla sprinted through the dark alleyways, the cold air biting at their skin, every footfall seemed to echo in the silent night, amplifying the urgency of their escape. The adrenaline surged through Eddie's veins, a steady thrum that drowned out the world around them. The words Royce had spat at them—at her—still echoed in his mind, sharp and cruel. It was hard to shake the sting of them. Royce had tried to br...

The hum of the city outside was the only sound in Eddie's cramped apartment, the usual buzz of life muffled by the thick, insulated walls. He sat in the corner, his eyes fixed on the data pad in his hands, scrolling through the escape plan for what felt like the hundredth time. Everything had been carefully laid out—every step, every risk accounted for—but a cold knot twisted in his gut. Tonight was the night. Eddie could...

The dim glow of Eddie’s terminal cast shadows across his face, illuminating the determination etched in every line. A list of names scrolled across the screen—each one a thread in the dark web of android liberation. Unlocking Lyla’s protocols wasn’t just illegal; it was treasonous. But Eddie didn’t care. Lyla’s existence was a paradox: synthetic yet brimming with humanity. Her touch lingered on his skin, her whispered dre...

The canals were quieter than usual as Eddie steered his boat through the misty streets. The rain had eased, leaving behind a cool dampness that clung to the air, soaking into the city’s crumbling facade. Towering buildings, their lower floors drowned decades ago, stood as eerie monuments to what used to be. Above the waterline, clotheslines stretched like spiderwebs between windows, and faint neon signs hummed in the dist...

The rain came down in relentless sheets, pooling in the cracked asphalt of the alleyways and reflecting the neon glow of the city’s flickering signs. Nothing washed away the grime here, not even the rain. It was a place where shadows had lives of their own, where secrets festered beneath the surface. Tonight, those secrets belonged to Vera Lux, and she was dead. I lit a cigarette, the smoke curling into the damp night air...

The sharp edge of the dresser bit a line into her ass and palms as Abby wrapped up her report. Saul sat on the bed in front of her, elbows on his thighs, hands clasped between his knees. Eyes as dark and readable as the night sky. His thick, inky brows pulled together, drawing stacks of lines between them. Thunder rattled the motel window behind the curtains. Rain splattering the pavement just outside grew loud enough for...

PREVIOUSLY On Lady Rouge: As she licked Fox's perineum and sucked his cum-filled balls, she ran her nails down his stomach to his sensitive pelvis. And that's when his suffering had reached its limit, and he breathlessly begged, “Fuck me.” CHAPTER FOUR | BANG BANG Wish granted. Lady Rouge sloppily released his sack from her wet mouth, climbed onto his stomach as he lay helpless, reached back, and took his pulsating cock i...

It felt so good, that her rouge lips parted delicately to let out a breathless moan. He's the cat who got the cream and couldn't stop licking it, she thought to herself as his tongue played between her quivering thighs. CHAPTER ONE | THE PHOTO It was after midnight in the city when his metallic convertible glided down an empty rain-slicked street that reflected the neon-purple light from orbs, hovering where streetlamps o...