The night, Club Eden, swallowed Raven Knight whole as she entered, she wasn’t wearing red, but she should’ve been. Red was for warning and sin. And sin was exactly what she was walking into. Instead, she wore fitted black slacks that clung to her hips, a satin top that shimmered like spilled oil, and heels borrowed from Talia, the friend who swore Eden was “just a club.” Her press badge hid inside her purse, like a loaded gun she couldn’t afford to draw. No one got inside Club Eden without a story, and tonight, hers was a lie dressed in silk. She wasn’t Raven Knight, investigative journalist for The Mirror. She was Raye Kincaid, an aspiring dancer from nowhere, with big eyes and a bigger dream. A perfect disguise for a woman walking into the devil’s den. The moment she crossed the velvet-draped threshold, sound hit her like a heartbeat. Music, slow, thick, seductive, throbbed through the floor. Perfume and smoke mixed with the sharp bite of whiskey. Every surface glowed in gold or r
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