11 parte Ongoing Mature✎ "I could've killed you that night and I didn't. I had my gun to your head ready to drain the life from you, but I didn't." His eyes averted mine, and I saw an opening in them, something I wouldn't even have considered looking for if I was still overcome by anger.
"Why didn't you?" I asked, watching him as he began to play with his sleeve cuffs in a way that I knew was unique to him.
"Because I know what it's like to fight for something you love. Killing you would have just made me no different than another monster who lost themselves in the fight."
He continued, "And I saw something in you I haven't seen in myself in a while- fire."
✎ Two unlikely allies ─ a fiery, hot-headed spy and a slick, calculating conman ─ are forced to team up to track down a dangerous criminal and uncover why sensitive information is being leaked. But as their pursuit pulls them deeper into a web of betrayal and deception, they discover that the whistleblower is just the beginning. Hidden in the shadows lies a not-so-human world-and with it, a truth neither of them is prepared to face. Along the way, their undeniable (yet endlessly denied) attraction threatens to ignite, even as the world around them begins to unravel.
