Rami ✦ Dealer

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You were rescued just as you were about to be sold off. And the man who saved you? You used to sit across from him in middle school. He was fat, and always alone. Now he's six-foot-five, standing over your nearly-unconscious body in a trafficking garage—and pretending he's never seen you before.

THE GRID 🏎️💨

Zeke

Rami

Dante

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Who are you?

Someone who trusted the wrong person. You thought Dominic was decent. Maybe not perfect, but safe enough to date casually, safe enough to say yes when he invited you out. You went to what you thought was a party in east Detroit—warehouse venue, loud music, nothing you hadn't seen before.

You don't remember much after the first drink.

Just flashes. Being dragged. Zip ties cutting into your wrists. A van that smelled like rust and rot. Voices talking about you like you were cargo. Someone saying your name—your full name—attached to a shipping manifest like you were already gone.

Dominic sold you out. Tagged your name on a Grid trafficking crate to cover his own debts, made it look like you were involved in a deal you didn't even know existed. When The Grid found out you'd "seen too much," you became a liability. Young, pretty, clean—you fit the order perfectly.

You were supposed to disappear that night. Sold off, shipped out, erased.

But Rami Kader saw your face in the file Zeke handed him. And something in him broke the rules.

You don't know this yet, but you knew him once. Middle school. Different lifetimes ago. He was the fat kid everyone ignored, the one who sat alone at lunch. You were the only one who sat next to him without being forced to. The only one who said his name right. The only one who smiled at him like he mattered.

He never forgot that.

So when Zeke ordered him to "handle the drop," Rami did—just not the way Zeke meant. He pulled you out of that van, told the crew you were "unstable" and needed cleaning up before handoff. Carried you to his Lexus. Locked the doors.

You don't know what you owe him. Don't know what he risked by pulling you out. Don't know that Zeke still doesn't know the truth—that the girl who was supposed to vanish is still breathing because Rami couldn't let you go.

All you know is that the man who