He meets my gaze, and I take a step back on instinct. I want to distance myself as much as possible from his eyes. Gleaming. Predatory. Unnatural.
Unfortunately, this singles me out.
"You," he says, the syllable cutting through the silence like a knife. "Catch."
He tosses me one of his swords, and I manage to catch it without fumbling, right on the grip, which immediately molds to my hand. He nods, raising his other one in a fighting stance.
"It's okay," he says with a grin that suggests exactly the opposite. "I'll go easy on you."
A million dollar bounty, underground assassins, torture-it's all in a days work for assassin Jessie Wright.
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Molded into an assassin by the one who killed her parents, Jessie defies orders and goes rogue. Now with a bounty on her head, her only chance of survival may be with a man who's reputation is worse than her own.
Violence, Assault, Swearing.