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Lily gulped, it's the 'devil'. She said in her mind with her hands still trembling.

Raven picked the phone from the girl's hand, turning it off, he said, "You don't want to do that. Now run along and forget everything that happened here, little girl." His voice low and chilly to the bone.

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Sunshine Meets Grumpy

He's a hitman, a hacker, a serpent slithering through the city's underbelly. Not a hero, not even close. The mafia's ghost in the machine, shadows his only companions.

Then, there's her. Bookish, buried in debt and dreams, juggling endless shifts and late-night study sessions. Sunflower yellow amidst the grimy alleys, oblivious to the danger lurking beneath her hopeful smile. "Plain," they call her, "basic." But her light, it's undeniable.

One fated night, a muttered curse, a stolen glance. Their worlds, oil and water, are destined to collide. Can sunshine melt the frost around a killer's heart? Or will their tangled destinies ignite a storm that consumes them both?

The Hitman’s Sunshine

[MUSIC RECOMMENDATION: CROCODILE TEARS ~ SUZANNA SON]

Eloise pushed the door open, anger seething through her nose. She couldn't believe the reason why she was humiliated was because of that thing? The girl wasn't even as pretty as her and obviously from her poor behavior around wealthy people, she wasn't in their class.

The girl pushed off everything on the table, sending it crashing to the floor as she tried to control her looming anger. Never in her life had she been humiliated to this extent. Men groveled at her feet, begging for just a conversation with her, but she was being compared to a nobody.

"Are you okay, ma'am?" Eloise closed her eyes when she heard a person's voice behind her. She got down on her heels, calming her face and breathing down.

Lily, who had gone to use the restroom, entered the powder room to touch up her makeup a little since she didn't know when the game would end.

IN THE POWDER ROOM