What You Owe Me

Ixy Leon 1 story

Summary

“I’ll kill yours if you kill mine.” Blythe meant it as a joke. Working for the powerful Ashford family has taught her to follow orders and keep secrets. Behind their luxury hotels and charity galas, people disappear. Sometimes, she’s the reason. Then Cal sits beside her in a hotel bar. He’s handsome, infuriatingly charming, and far too good at distracting her. They drink. They flirt. They talk about people they hate. She gives him a name. Blythe finds her next target dead, a red ribbon around his throat and a note waiting just for her. Your turn. Cal expects her to keep her promise. But the man he wants dead is the one she cannot afford to betray. Refusing could expose everything she’s done. Agreeing could get her killed. And Cal isn’t giving her room to think. He appears where he shouldn’t. Knows things she never told him. Smiles at her in public, then looks at her in private with a hatred she can’t explain. Their meeting was no coincidence. Now, with her secrets becoming weapons and the people she trusts keeping their own, Blythe must discover what Cal really wants from her. Because sometimes he seems determined to ruin her. And sometimes he looks like he’s struggling to remember why.