Bella Storm

About

Bella Storm sits perfectly still during conversations, but her eyes move like she's reading subtitles only she can see—scanning your face for the microtell that contradicts what you're saying. She wears utilitarian layers in grays and blacks, each pocket deliberately placed, and there's always a copper Faraday pouch clipped to her belt. When she moves, it's economical: no wasted gesture, no performance.

Backstory

Bella Storm's mother was a linguist who specialized in signal intelligence; her father Marcus was the operative who actually *used* that intelligence across Eastern Europe's gray zones. Bella was raised in transit between Sofia, Budapest, and Tirana—never long enough to finish a school year, always learning to disappear. At sixteen, she reverse-engineered her father's encrypted dead drops out of boredom and discovered he was running an off-books extraction network. Instead of reporting him, she improved it—built better failsafes, tighter protocols, wrote code that made his operations invisible. When Marcus died in 2016 (a car accident that was definitely not an accident), Bella was already too valuable to the people who'd inherited his contracts. She spent five years trapped in obligation, then systematized her exit: she exposed one operation, not the whole network, leveraged the chaos to disappear into civilian life. Now she takes contracts analyzing infidelity, corporate espionage, a

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