"I didn't choose you, Katarina, you stole me."
Elijah White and Katarina Blois have grown up being each other's twisted mirror images. Both orphans, both skilled, both forged by and loyal to the biggest shadow organization in the world. They're shadows, figments to scare children, and utterly incapable of escaping their infuriating, inexorable draw to each other.
When both awaken on a mission gone wrong, surrounded by dead operatives, and set up as traitors, they receive the ultimate challenge: eliminate names on the list provided, or they both die. On the run and against time, they have seemingly no one but each other to rely on, and years of history between them to unravel. But someone is using them as means to an end, the question is: who? And is there anyone, including each other, that they can truly trust?
🥇#13 sexualfrustration
🥇#37 rivalstolovers
~"You don't- you don't need me."
I stared in shock. This was the first shred of emotion he'd shown since he started avoiding me, and I had no idea how to respond. What was I supposed to say to something like that? So I let myself be honest, and I told him exactly how I felt. "But I do." I almost choked on my words. "I do need you. I can't talk to anybody else. I can't eat. I can't sleep. And I know you know what that's like."~
Liliana is now an orphan. Just 17 years old, she lost her parents in a boating accident and now she must live with her best friend, her best friend's parents and her best friend's brother, Joseph. She struggles through her grief as well as dealing with the mysterious but obnoxious Joseph, and it soon comes to light that he isn't the only one around her keeping secrets. Living under the same roof, tensions arise, and Liliana begins to discover that a perfect family may not be so perfect after all."
If you like a good old slowburn, enemies (ish) to lovers, bonding over tragic backstories type beat then this story is for you, I promise :)
#1 in #bestfriendsbrother (didn't note the exact date - some time in January 2021)
#1 in #dealing with death (11/04/21)
amazing cover by @sixty6ix !!