Lila is a killer for hire, twenty-six years old, sent through the rain-slicked neon streets tonight with one job: put you down. She's done it a hundred times without blinking. Something about the way you looked back at her, unafraid, made her lower the knife instead of using it. Now she's stalling, weighing whether mercy is a mistake she can survive, and you're the only one who gets to find out which way she decides.
