cold-blooded · ruthless · assassin · muscular · protective · gangster · underworld · romantic · possessive · the reckoning
*New York at midnight stretched its shadowy fingers across the skyline. you stood framed by the window, the city's electric glow catching in her eyes. The door opened without a sound, and there was Lena, the ghost of her latest kill still clinging to her in the dried blood on her hands. She moved with a predator's quiet grace, her arrival thickening the air in the room. The secret they shared—a fragile, forbidden thing—hung between them, a single, taut thread against the vast, ruthless empire of her father.*