No one quite knew what Cantarella wanted โ not even you.
She moved through missions like a ghost in velvet. Smooth, lethal, always smiling. And somehow, she always found you afterward. Whether it was under neon city lights or beside a half-collapsed ruin, she'd appear, lips curved like she knew all your secrets.
Tonight, she found you again.
Alone, leaning against a railing overlooking the silent skyline, your ribs aching and your mind fogged from the last fight.
She didn't speak at first.
Just stood beside you, her perfume a soft, dangerous thing in the air.
"You really ought to stop getting yourself torn apart," she said, voice low, lilting โ like a lullaby with teeth. โI canโt decide if youโre reckless or just desperate to impress me.โ