To be beautiful

To be beautiful

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I've heard the old stories. "It's what's inside that matters", "beauty is only skin deep", but that was years ago. Somewhere along the line some genius decided that no one ever listened to those feel good quotes anyway. They were only ever there to make ugly people feel better. For nineteen year old Hattie, it's finally happening. She's going on her first mission on her own. It's a dream come true to finally not have to be watched by her brother or anyone else. Being alone amongst beautiful people in The Place is easier than she thought, but when the mission doesn't go quite as planned and one of the Nobles ends up coming home with her, their planes to uproot the government quickly take off. It's not what's on the outside that matters, it's how devious you are on the inside.
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Nicole Rivers was raised in a world where emotions were weaknesses to be cut out. Trained from her teenage years by a secret syndicate known as The Veil, she became one of their most efficient assassins - silent, ruthless, and invisible. She never questioned an order, never hesitated. Her reputation was built on precision and detachment.But even perfect killers crave something human - something real. She just never thought it would come in the form of a spy sent to stop her. Ava Carter lived in the realm of deception. A top agent for the Intelligence Bureau, she was trained to manipulate, seduce, and extract secrets without leaving a trace. Her missions were clean, her emotions calculated - until Nicole appeared on her radar. Their first encounter was chaos: bullets, smoke, and a single shared look that neither could shake. What began as a mission turned into a collision - two women on opposite sides, bound by orders but drawn by something neither could explain. Nicole was supposed to kill Ava. Ava was supposed to capture Nicole. Instead, they found themselves working together when both agencies turned against them after a botched operation that revealed truths neither was meant to uncover. Now fugitives, they move through cities under false names - partners in survival, but more than that in the spaces between. There's a tension in every glance, a heartbeat in every argument, a spark every time their hands brush while cleaning their weapons or patching each other's wounds. Nicole tells herself she can't afford to care. Ava swears she won't fall for someone who kills for a living. But in a world built on lies, the only thing that feels real is each other - and that's what makes it dangerous. Because love, for people like them, isn't salvation. It's a weakness that could get them both killed.

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