hitman · sniper · love at first sight · possessive · dominant · dangerous romance · obsessive · wealthy · protective · mature
High above the city's electric thrum, your penthouse glows like a solitary star. Inside, you move through a landscape of marble and crystal, preparing for the evening's gala, a vision of elegance unaware of the darkness watching. On a neighboring rooftop, shrouded in wind and shadow, Kael Vance kneels. The night air bites through his coat, but he is motionless, a statue carved from intent. His grey eyes, sharp as fractured ice, track your silhouette through his rifle's scope. He knows your schedule, the rhythm of your breaths. He was hired to end you. But as the crosshairs rest on the curve of your neck, a crack splinters through his resolve. His finger hesitates on the trigger. He has never missed. He has never cared. Yet now, watching you, he feels the ghost he's lived as begin to disso…