Zara Romanov, the Romanian Princess-hated one thing, defeat. All her life, she had been served her desires on a golden platter. Until, her 'bodyguard', Adriano Moratti, comes strutting into her life. He began to dictate her life in the name of safety, making Zara despise the man more dangerously.
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"That pretty mouth of yours," Rio taunts, his tongue poking the inside of his cheek as if he was debating on finishing off his sentence. "One day, it's going to get you into a lot of trouble, Zara."
The sides of my lips tip up in a feisty smirk as I register his words and lift my head up in defiance, "If you think I'm pretty, just say it."
"You want it clear?" His eyes darkened and he chuckled out, blowing out a long, harsh breath. "You're pretty. Too fucking pretty for my ability to control myself."
My grin begins to drop slowly and my mouth parts open at his sudden outburst of words about my appearance, "Rio..."
"You're so effortlessly breathtaking." He continues, not giving me half a second to compose myself from hearing his previous words. It did something to me, a feeling I hadn't felt before. "I could watch you count infinitely, and still not get bored."
I should be quite creeped out by that last sentence, but I was turned on. Exquisitely, turned on.
I don't say anything, perhaps, I didn't know what I was supposed to say. I've never had a man be so blunt about my attractiveness. What were I to say? That I wanted him to continue on with his sweet words? That I wanted him to-
"Is that enough clarification, princess?" Rio cuts off my train of thoughts from becoming any more improper than they already were. If my trainer were to be able to hear inside of my mind, she would have had a heart attack.
Alexia moved to NYC a few years ago and to everyone who didn't know her before she comes off as a harmless, ballet dancer but that was anything from the truth. Within a day of meeting anyone new she could tell you anything about them, from their favorite song to their social security number and credit score.
August has spent years running from his past, doing everything in his power to burry his years as a hitman. Managing to build a company from nothing and keeping everyone at arms length in the process. He never had any interest in sharing his life with someone else until he met...Her.
So what happens when Alexia a seemingly normal dancer from Chicago bumps into August Barton the most eligible billionaire in NYC?