Art of Darkness
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"Look at them, enjoying life without you. I guess they favor your twin sister more than you that's why they gave you up, huh?"
After thirteen years of endless torture and abuse at the hands of her captors and foster families, Natalia had grown to accept the fact that she has no one but herself to rely on. She made herself strong... too strong that she became someone she never thought she would be. A cold-hearted killer. A famous assassin known as Viper who is created by darkness itself.
She was the art of darkness.
At the age of nineteen, she stumbles upon people she never wished to see. Her biologicals. The people she despises the most for abandoning her, leaving her to die in the hands of the devils.
But little did she know that the more she tries to escape them, the more destiny pulls them together.
What's more when she gets herself mixed up with the man who she shares a love-hate relationship with. From untold feelings of love turns into small gestures of comfort and care.
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