Darkness Within a Facade
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"Darkness hides within the smallest of crevices and slowly emerges through the tiniest of cracks. There is a darkness within every facade. People simply do not change, rather they put on a mask and pretend in hope that it will be gone forever."
Damien Aquila always thought that was the truth, nothing more and nothing less, but that was before he met HER. She was what changed him, what made Damien abandon his past life and live it anew with her. That was when he thought that people COULD change, no matter how dark the past.
He thought wrong. When he left his past life behind, Damien also left behind Valentino Corvino, his companion of 10 years and someone he would rather avoid for the rest of his life. Maybe leaving him behind was a bad decision... it also doesn't help that he has Italia's greatest hunters, Squadra Della Morte, after his head.
(This is a co-op story with ThePandaQueenXx)
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