The Healer and The Hitman

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She saved a stranger bleeding out in the rain.

By morning, he was gone-only a warning left behind.

"You shouldn't save men like me, Hayat"

But weapons don't forget the hands that put them back together.

And when he returns, bloodied and silent, she realizes the truth too late:

Saving him wasn't mercy.
It was an invitation.
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Dr.Hayat Zaidi

24 | Veterinarian | The Savior.

Orphaned at ten. Raised by her
mother's best friend in India. Built a life in New York where no one asks questions and no one gets too close. She saves broken things for a living-animals, strays, and apparently, men who should've been left to bleed out in the rain.

Compassionate but guarded. Lonely but won't admit it. The kind of woman who stitches wounds without asking how they happened.

Until him.

Mikhail Orlov

29 | Assassin | The Weapon.

Raised by a secret organization that taught him one rule: kill or be killed.
No childhood. No choice. No way out.
He doesn't kill for money-he kills because it's all he knows. Because the organization owns him. Because survival means obedience, and hesitation means death.

Cold. Controlled. Efficient. A weapon shaped by violence, programmed to feel nothing.

Until soft hands pulled him from the death, and for the first time in his life, he wanted to be something other than what they made him.

She was supposed to be nobody. Forgettable.
But she became the only thing worth breaking his programming for.

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