For two years, Thiago Bastien Fonacier had lived in Russia under a name that was never his, chasing a man no one had ever seen. The world called him the architect of war-a phantom who fueled nations with blood, weapons, and countless deaths. Every lead ended in failure. Every trail went cold. With only a year left before his mission was terminated, Thiago had no choice but to accept the impossible. Then Nikolai Viktorovich Vasiliev walked into his life. A respected public servant. Untouchable. Beautiful enough to disarm suspicion with a smile. He was the last person Thiago should have trusted, yet somehow became the only one willing to help him. Not until the day Thiago had to leave. One bullet was all it took for him to realize he had been played-by none other than the man he trusted most in a foreign country. His identity was erased. His face was branded across the nation as a foreign threat. Hunted by the authorities, abandoned by the organization that had sent him, and trapped in a country that wanted him dead, Thiago found himself at the mercy of the man he had been sent to kill. He thought he was hunting a phantom. He never realized the phantom had been hunting him all along.