'The Devil and his Ace,' That's what they called us...
Shards of light, fled from his eyes as they flashed dangerously, fixed outside the window, "I re-built this city with a gun, to get what I want, and a Cartel, to secure what I got; So that nobody else had to. Their economy is kept stable by the drugs I sell, and their lifestyle secured by the blood I've spilled. The law didn't care about us before, so why should I care about the law now. I don't give a damn if the world calls us sinners, because the people out there, they call us saints,"
Woman. Gang leader. Thief. Known to the world only by the name 'Ace', the most wanted criminal that came and went without a trace; Now, reduced to nothing more than the FBI's 'mole on a leash' after a heist went wrong. Having been blackmailed and forced to infiltrate an increasingly powerful Cartel, by the FBI, and being at the mercy of the Cartel Leader, 'Malice', she's walking on a tight rope. With him, she was in danger. The type of danger that blurred the lines between: the good and bad, truth and lies, the morals and immoral, life and death, danger and safety, family and feelings; Sinners and Saints...
When a young women named Cordelia, find's herself in the new club downtown, she encounters deep family secrets after she parties hard and bumps into a hot stranger who is more than just a pretty face...
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"Your just a nervous virgin who can't handle it" he replied, fucking evil bastard.
"Guess you'll never know if that's true" I whispered, looking out the window.
He tugged my hair backwards so my mouth was open and my head was tilted back, I tried to pull myself up but his grip was too strong.
"Never talk to me like that again, or I will fuck you until you cannot walk" he said, i gulped as his hand released from my hair.
And that's when I realised,
I was stuck with the devil.
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"After everything we've been through, all the moments that blood was spilled and when tears had fallen, right now we are laying here together."
And that's what sums them up. There life wouldn't be the same if they had never met. She sacrificed family, friends, lovers, all for him.
Her entire life was consumed by his presence, but she found a way to see the good in him.
But does she still carry the hate she used to have for him in her heart?
-a enemies to lovers story🖤