[Book #2 in the Nystrom series] [18+TW: mature content, heavy topics, language] I push the feeling away and ultimately concentrate my gaze on his upper body, which still bears the traces of my lipstick. "You did not remove them?" He smirks and closes the book as I chuckle and trace the lip print with my finger. I smile at the marks, I wanted him to be mine as much as I was his. The marks reflect that. He raises his eyebrows as soon as his eyes land on mine. "Oh?" His voice is hoarse and low when he murmurs, "You like them?" "I do, they look pretty good on you." I admit, gazing up at him when I see him smirk and I wonder what he is thinking about, but when he grabs my hips and pulls me into his lap, my question is already resolved. "Why don't you take some pictures then, love?" εꨄ︎з 𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐘𝐀 𝐇𝐀𝐘𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈, the psychopath. With a twisted mind and a broken past, Amaya tries to slip away from her mother's controlling grip. She's given a task that could finally set her free; Get information about the people who assassinated her clan, and kill their leader; Rowan Adams. It was supposed to be easy. Quick. She never expected him to be the key to all her hidden secrets. 𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐃𝐀𝐌𝐒, the murderer. Under all the sarcastic comments, a fractured man lies beneath. His hands tainted with blood, and memories fractured with death. That is, until her. She throws his life entirely off course, a random girl yet hauntingly familiar in his eyes. Now, he'd twist a knife into his heart just to prove his loyalty to her. εꨄ︎з STARTED: July 2022 FINISHED: April 2023

He pushed me against the wall. One leg between my thighs, one hand holding my wrists above my head, and the other with a dagger to my throat. I glared at him. "You got me where you wanted me, now what are you going to do about it?" He let out a deep breathy laugh leaning in closer to my ear, pressing the knife a little harder. "I think you need to be more specific princess, because two very different ideas just popped into my head. Both involve you tied up and begging, His teeth catch my ear lobe. My breath hitches. "begging for what is the difference." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <<mature language and mature scenes>><<enemies to lovers>><<18+>> Asher and Vienna meet again after fifteen years apart with pure hatred for each other. Asher is given the assignment of killing the deadly, impossible to catch, assassin Hasfa Hoffman, and he discovers it is his life long enemy. But life isn't easy like that, Vienna and Asher have been through hell and back together over the past couple months. So when Asher comes at the cross roads of completing the assignment or giving mercy to the girl who has become more to him than he could have ever expected, what can he do? Be the cruel assassin he's known to be, or go against the odds and defy his leader? Smutty, angsty, funny- the enemies to lovers you know and love. With characters that'll make you laugh and cry. The Assignment, recommended for 18 and older due to mature content ;)