A Vow in Black Glass

by Vivian Cross

Heat 3 / 5Novel · 21 chapters57,722 words4h 11m read~6h 25m listen

The meeting at the Chicago executive airfield was supposed to be a truce. Then a Blackridge lieutenant caught a bullet, every man in the room reached for iron, and Sebastian Voss had about four seconds to stop a massacre. He improvised. A public handshake. A dollar figure on a cocktail napkin. Joint oversight, witnessed by a dozen armed men who would remember every word. It was the most controlled thing Sebastian had ever done — and the moment he lost control of everything.

Mara Callahan has spent seven years making herself indispensable and unreadable. She seconded Sebastian’s proposal before he finished the sentence, not because she trusted him, but because she recognized the only move that kept both rooms alive. Now she is locked into a rotating schedule — New York, Chicago, New York — sharing decisions and airspace with a man whose ledger she cannot fully audit and whose attention she cannot seem to stop noticing.

They think alike. They fight alike. They are both carrying something they will not name. And someone inside both operations is engineering a collapse — forged documents, fabricated breaches, a war built one provocation at a time — that will detonate unless the two people who cannot afford to trust each other find a way to do exactly that.

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