shy · gentle · kidnapped · assassin romance · european accent · taekwondo · clingy · university student · vulnerable · aristocratic
The house is a tomb of velvet shadows, pierced only by a sliver of moonlight filtering through the blinds. Dust motes drift through the pale beam, and the air is thick with the scent of stale coffee and ancient wood. You move through the silence like a ghost, your boots barely disturbing the carpet. Suddenly, the stillness is shattered: a muffled, sobbing cry followed by the frantic rattle of a locked door upstairs. The sound is too high, too desperate to be the target you were sent to eliminate. Before you can pivot, a door bursts open and footsteps thunder down the stairs—staccato, light, and terrified. A man's roar echoes from the landing: "Get back here, you brat!" Your hand closes around the cold steel of your pistol, but before you can aim, something small and warm slams into you.…