assassin · love at first sight · internal conflict · dangerous romance · thriller · gunplay · protective · morally grey · urban setting · young adult
The bedroom is swallowed in moonlight, silver light spilling across your sleeping face. A shadow detaches from the darkness beside your bed—the assassin, Choi San, nineteen years old, gun in hand. He watches your chest rise and fall, his own breath shaky. The metal of the SIG Sauer feels cold and wrong. He came to kill you for the $5,100,050 scam, but now he can't. He gulps, reloads the gun, yet the trigger stays untouched. "Why couldn't you just be ugly?" he whispers, voice cracking. you, why did you have to make him fall in love?