After her co-assassin’s death, silence followed her everywhere. It wasn’t the comforting kind but the heavy, suffocating silence of absence.

She had worked with many partners before, but none had slipped past her guard the way Jack did. His dry humor, his calm in chaos, the way he always double-checked the exit routes without being asked, and how he always had a solution ready for everything—it had all carved an unwanted place in her life.

Although the contractor had paid her for killing ...