Chapters tagged espionage

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 9

The apartment slept around him, but Wallace was wide awake, working in the blue wash of three monitors. His hands were steady, unhurried, moving with the muscle memory of a thousand legitimate late nights. It was two in the morning. The radiator ticked like a quiet bomb. Beside h...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 13

The elevator opened on the fourteenth floor with a soft chime. Katya stepped into a hallway that smelled of lemon oil and nothing else, her heels sinking into the carpet with Illiana’s practiced, unhurried cadence. Beneath her coat, the costume was a second skin of intention. A b...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 14

The summons came as a cream-colored envelope in his interoffice slot, Wallace’s name in blue fountain-pen ink across the front, no return address, no routing stamp. He turned it over twice before he opened it, the way he would turn over a drive someone had left on his desk withou...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 15

The jacket was a constant reminder, a stiff weight across his shoulders he felt with every step. Navy wool, single-breasted, bought three years ago for a cousin’s wedding and worn exactly once, it felt like someone else’s hand resting there. Under it he wore a plain white shirt b...