At seventeen, I was just another foster kid....until Carlos Salazar made me believe in forever. Reckless smile. Dangerous charm. A touch that felt like fire. For one fleeting moment, he was everything. Until the night he left me broken. Now I'm twenty-two. An assassin. My world runs on blood and contracts, not love. The girl he knew is buried. But the cartel doesn't care about scars, and fate doesn't care about promises. My new assignment? Protect the man who ruined me. He doesn't recognize me. I remember everything. The lies. The scars. The night that turned me into this. Carlos wants the sweet girl he lost. But someone else has already seen the woman I've become....sharp, dangerous, untouchable. And in his eyes, softness is weakness. I swore I'd never love again. But between the man who broke me and the one who would never let me heal, my heart has become a battlefield. And when the truth finally bleeds out, all that's left are sinners with watercolour eyes. -Dark romance -Assassin FMC -Enemies to lovers -Love triangle -Obsession

From the moment Aurora Romano could walk, she was warned to stay away from him. Luca De Luca - the ruthless heir to Italy's deadliest mafia family. Cold. Cruel. Deadly. And terrifyingly silent. He never spoke to her. Not a word. Not a glance. Not even when they were children playing in the same villa courtyard. While others chased her with laughter, he stood in the shadows, watching. Always watching. To her, he hated her. His silence screamed of disdain. His sharp gaze felt like a knife. His presence made her heart race-for all the wrong reasons. But what she didn't know was that Luca had been obsessed with her for years. From the moment she smiled at him when they were eight and he didn't know how to smile back. Now, ten years later, she's grown into a fierce beauty-still soft-hearted, still scared of him. And Luca? He's no longer just the quiet boy in the corner. He's a man feared by everyone, even his enemies. Ruthless. Heartless. Unforgiving. She thought he hated her. But the truth is far darker. He was never ignoring her. He was waiting.

𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫 ー 𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥. "You took a bullet for me." "Of course I did." He answers wholeheartedly. "Did you mean it? What you said?" "Every word." He confirms. "Come back. Stay with me. You can't keep running." "You left me for dead." "I didn't know what I was walking away from. I don't want to lose either of you but I think I'm on the verge of losing you both. I've never had anything to lose before." He looks so broken. So crushed under the weight of his confession. ╔══════ 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙨 𝙖 𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨, 𝙎𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙖 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣. ══════╝ ✓ completed [ 10.09.23 ] [ dark themes, strong language, violence ]