Thief x Family | Yuri Briar

Sancha Pilar is a thief down on her luck. She's penniless, jobless, crewless, and very, very much blacklisted in the criminal underworld. Stuck in Berlint, the capital of the communist country of Ostania, without an ally to turn to or a heist to hatch, she grows needlessly bored. But things change when she learns an old Acquaintance - the Westalis Spy TWILIGHT - is in town. And here's something else - he is deep undercover.

As one of the few people who knew his identity as a secret agent and lived to tell the tale, Sancha blackmails him into helping her. Inadvertently, she becomes involved with Twilight's scheme herself, eventually learning that a former funder of the Bolsaro Mafia, the criminal organization she formerly worked for, is in town : Stanwin Blackbell, CEO of Blackbell Heavy industries and likely the conspirator who ratted out her overheads and cost her everything. Quietly, she resumes her heists at night while during the day she occasionally babysits Anya, Twilight's-for-the-mission-fake-daughter. But as her scores grow bolder, her activity gains the attention of the State Security Service, causing Sancha to become embroiled with Yuri Briar, a secret police officer and also, conveniently, the brother of Twilight's for-the-mission-fake-wife.

With both criminal underbosses and law enforcement hot on her trail, Sancha's got a lot to get away with. But even that doesn't seem as daunting of a challenge as her growing feelings for Yuri, in spite of his many issues and status as her, well, enemy, or her budding affection for Twilight and his fake family. It has been a longtime since Sancha has let herself love someone else. Loving someone means the possibility of losing them, and that, somehow, is the scariest thing of all.