Airside Vendetta

Airside Vendetta

by Willa Bishop

Heat 3 / 5Novella · 12 chapters26,349 words1h 55m read~2h 56m listen

Someone is selling Blackridge flight schedules to the wrong people, and every data trail ends at the same console — Dasha Mercer’s. She has kept the Nightshade syndicate airborne for years, routing jets through private lounges and rain-slicked tarmacs with the kind of precision that earns absolute trust. She has also been carrying a secret that could get everyone she loves killed.

Roman Szell does not shadow suspects. He buries them. When Nightshade dispatches its most feared auditor to the Blackridge Hangar on a sleeting January midnight, he expects a traitor with a paper trail. What he finds instead is a woman who knows exactly where the leak originates — and will not say a word, because the name at the end of that trail belongs to someone she cannot sacrifice.

Forced into suffocating proximity as Roman rides her shoulder from console to tarmac, Dasha’s silence becomes its own kind of confession. He hunts by instinct. She survives by stillness. And somewhere between a furious kiss against a cold fuselage and a debt note that is already overdue, the line between investigation and obsession begins to dissolve.

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