𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒚? You worked as a prison psychologist, you were face to face with the worst criminals of New York every day, but was it scary? Yes. It was. But somehow the thrill of it all overruled the feeling of fear. The information you got, stored, 𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺. Since your friend Foggy Nelson died you decided to seek out his killer, Benjamin Poindexter. To what end? You didn't know yet. All you knew was that you had to meet him. What you didn't know when you took the job was that it would make your life a whole lot messier. Your friendships were at stake, your life, your 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘴. Would you give it all up? For a certain criminal? T H I S S T O R Y C O N T A I N S : • Mature themes • Violence • Psychological influences • Lethal violence • Reader is around 26, Dex is 28.

𝑺𝑨𝑳𝑽𝑨𝑮𝑬 || "i'm not going anywhere. not tonight, not tomorrow... i'll stay, as long as you let me." _𝘐𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘺 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵 , 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 •󠁯󠁯 ᵈᵃʳᵏ ʳᵒᵐᵃⁿᶜᵉ 󠁯•󠁏 ᵒᵇˢᵉˢˢⁱᵛᵉ ᵇᵉʰᵃᵛⁱᵒʳ/ ˢᵗᵃˡᵏⁱⁿᵍ 󠁯•󠁏 ᴾᵀˢᴰ / ᵗʳᵃᵘᵐᵃ ʳᵉᶜᵒᵛᵉʳʸ 󠁯•󠁏 ᵈᵒᵐᵉˢᵗⁱᶜ ᵃᵇᵘˢᵉ 󠁯• ˢᵐᵘᵗ {ᵐⁱˡᵈ}

Everyone thinks the truth is fixed. Lara Vance knows better. By day, she's a freelance crime scene reconstitution specialist, hired to piece together what really happened using surveillance footage, sound traces,, and the smallest overlooked details. Defence lawyers trust her. Clients depend on her. But truth isn't what she sells. It's what she rewrites. Behind the scenes, she's an information broker who bends reality for the highest bidder. Security footage glitches when it shouldn't. Evidence starts pointing in entirely new directions. Innocent or guilty, it doesn't matter. But when a new pattern of crimes starts surfacing, flawless, precise, almost surgical. She becomes obsessed. Not with violence. But with the perfection behind it. Bulleyes. A name whispered through broken timelines and erased evidence. A man who control motion the way she controls narrative.

Kaia Serrano doesn't feel pain - not really. Just dull aches and inconveniences. It makes cutting arteries easier, surviving worse, and caring about her own safety almost nonexistent. Hell's Kitchen calls her Vendetta - the vigilante dismantling organized crime one precise strike at a time. Benjamin Poindexter is assigned to track her down. Instead, he becomes obsessed. Kai notices, of course. She always does. And somewhere between violence, silence, and horrific memory - Kai finds herself in the safest place she's ever been. Which is dangerous... considering who she chose to trust.