Shadows and Smoke
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"Be careful how you fucking speak with me." He said with a serious voice that would make someone's blood chill. But I was not afraid, I somehow knew that he would never hurt Alice, not when Liam was here. It was obvious that Liam liked Alice, but I don't know if Alice was going to be interested in Liam after what was just going down.
"Or what? I am a fucking assassin, to be specific your own personal assassin. You know what I'm capable of doing, you're seeing what the news were talking about me. Maybe you should be careful of how you speak with me." I said, not even scared of his ass. I saw him adjusting his pants, fucking bastard was getting hard. So now who fucking has the control?
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Xaden Bertelli, Most fearful Italian Mafia, where he hired an assassin 5 years ago but does not know who the assassin is. Simply because he didn't care. Most important thing for Xaden is that the assassin is getting the job done without questions asked.
Scarlet Bruni, a bartender at Crave club and an assassin. She is getting the job done for someone that she does not know and getting paid for it to find her parents. The only person that she has, is Alice, she will never let anything happen to her, but so would Liam.
What happens when Xaden learns that the assassin is a woman and that he already knows her?
Read to find out!
The story is a bit slow burn, but once they meet each other everything will start then :)
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