46 parts Ongoing Matureaddicted
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physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance.
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"You're addicted to me, aren't you?" he smirks.
"What's wrong with that?" I smile back.
"We're all addicted to things that could ruin us."
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Enemies. Ex-childhood friends. Fake dating. Secret identities. Forbidden romance.
Chase Russo lost his mother. Valentine Damitri lost her home. And when he needed her most, she disappeared without a trace. Years later, they're nothing but enemies passing in the same school hallways. He believes she abandoned him. She believes he's just an asshole.
But Valentine isn't who she used to be. Behind the mask of a student, she is one of the world's most lethal assassins, every mission pulling her deeper into a web of blood, secrets, and the one mystery she has never stopped chasing: what happened to her mother.
And Chase isn't the boy she left behind. He has built his own secret life as an undercover agent, one that will collide with hers in ways neither of them can control.
When they're forced into a fake relationship, their fragile truce threatens to ignite into something neither of them can deny. But when Valentine discovers the next name on her kill list, the truth shatters everything.
Nicolo Russo. Chase's father.
The man she has been sent to kill.
But Valentine isn't the only one with orders. Because while she's been trained to dismantle his empire, Chase has been trained to eliminate the deadliest assassin alive.
Her.