Twelve Mile Limit

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nothing's more exclusive than Noire Underground.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Serving the wicked and reaping rewards.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Secrets. Lies. Soot and cinders.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rhythm. Blades. Games and gore.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A knife like a claw and the strike of a needle.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This hidden haven is a throne of chains.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maddox</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tessa Lockhart is what dreams-and nightmares-are made of.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Since she works at the resort I own she's technically off-limits but rules are suggestions I tend not to take.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Especially when it comes to the silver-haired tattoo artist with a sharp tongue and quick wit.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The only problem is that she hates me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nah. That's pretty perfect too.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I took care of something for her and there's been some new developments so it's time to cash in.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But there's only one payment I'll accept.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tessa</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maddox Noire is tragically gorgeous and infuriatingly demented.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>His sinister king-of-the-underworld persona and urge to dance through life used to give me those giddy schoolgirl-crush butterflies.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Pathetic I know.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then he opened his mouth. And blew up my life.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For two and a half years I've been indebted to him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He claims that his new demands are my payment and not because I'm in danger.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As much as I despise him dealing with a Noire is the lesser evil.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because if our secret is out our time is up.</span></p><p></p>