A plume of fine white powder burst into the air, scattering like smoke.

Yuri jumped back, visibly startled. “Limone, what do you think you’re doing?!”

For all his bravado and his claims of being worldly, nothing could have prepared him for a woman charging at him weaponized with a fire extinguisher.

Limone, having extinguished the flaming candles strewn across the pavement, shook the canister once as if to punctuate her disdain, her expression ...