Riona Voss wakes up in a concrete room with no windows, raw wrists, and twenty steps to a door that only opens from the outside. She counts the guards. She names the water stain on the ceiling Bruno. She does not let herself think about Celeste. On the other side of the city, Celeste is not sleeping. She's burning things down — alliances, concessions, favors saved for real wars. Her advisor tells her she's destroying everything she built for one person. She says yes without stopping. This is the book where the waiting ends. Where a nineteen-year-old file finally gets opened, and the name inside explains everything — the hit, the fire, the family Riona lost. And the man who has been sitting at Celeste's table ever since, perfectly composed, waiting to collect. He planned for every variable. He didn't plan for them. Kill Me Softly is Book 3 of the Dangerous Women series — slow-burn sapphic thriller, dark mafia undertones, adult content (18+). Read Books 1 and 2 first.