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I Can't Sleep, Love

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"Let me be the darkness, the darkness that cradles you, the darkness that will nurture your flickering flame until it blazes brightly once more." -Sailo Liu

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Sailo Liu is a billionaire's son. He's seen as a charming gentleman - a prince that came out from a book.
 
Beneath it all, his corrupted and twisted heart hides, desiring only one thing: vengeance. But after discovering a woman who was sent to kidnap him, it sparked his amusement and he decided to let himself fall for her traps.
 
The more he got to know her though, the more addicted he became.
 
Deon Liara Cortez is an amateur assassin who needs money to pay for her brother's hospital bills. She's cold and unmoving, a girl who has a hard time sleeping. When her friend finally gave her an assignment, it was a job she didn't expect - to kidnap a billionaire's son.
 
A jerk she didn't know would make her feel things she had never felt all her life.

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