Episode 29.5: Silent Auction

The music softens, the mirrors preen—and Silk & Smoke slides into its most dangerous rhythm: the breath between desire and decision. Jack keeps Lina alive with old tricks—two inches off-center, a palm at her neck, crystal to scatter the red. She keeps him honest with a velvet-knife grin and rules in five languages. Together they glide through donors, back halls, and a silent-auction maze until the...