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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: CONFESS TO YOU ~ LIM KIM]

Lily didn't say anything else during the ride. Her mind slowly wandered to the memories about her family, especially her mother. She didn't know why the memory about her was faint, even in her dream she couldn't see her mother's face.

Maybe subconsciously she had decided to forget the woman since she never acted as a mother to her or Fred. Lily said to herself, her eyes looking outside the window as she watched people move freely in the city.

Lily remembered that it was just only last night that countless lives were lost yet it looked like just another normal day. A man walking with his dog, and a young woman waiting to cross while holding her coffee. But yet, lives had been lost the other night. Lily sighed.

"Master, um...can I go back to school? I still have one year left to graduate and I've missed so many classes," Lily asked after seeing college students chatter while crossing the road.

BONE-DEEP INDULGENCE