“I know,” the man replied, sliding a photograph across the table. It was her—the old her, wide-eyed and smiling, before the betrayals and the bad money. “That’s why I’m here to talk to the woman who killed her.”
Her real name wasn’t Lana Rhoades. That was a ghost, a persona she’d shed three years ago in a bus station bathroom in Nevada, leaving behind a sequined costume and a phone full of blocked numbers. Now, she wore tailored black slacks and a silk blouse the color of a fresh bruise. She was all sharp edges and quiet calculation. lana part 1 lana rhoades
Lana slid into the seat across from him, the leather sighing under her weight. “You’re either very lost or very stupid,” she said, her voice a low murmur over the thrum of bass. “I know,” the man replied, sliding a photograph