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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: WHAT WAS I MADE FOR ~ BILLIE EILISH]

Raven stepped inside the car, driving quietly, waiting for Lily to say a word, but she didn't. He let her be because right now she needed to gather her thoughts. It was not easy hearing that one's whole life was merely a show and nothing was ever real.

Lily blinked her eyes, turning to look at Raven. She said, "He must be lying, right? There's no way Fred wouldn't be my brother. Haha, do you think my father can get treated so he would stop hallucinating?" She asked, her lips trembling.

"Puffin..." Raven called her name; he wished he could do something about it. Turn everything around or even protect her from knowing the truth.

ANGUISH OF THE ABANDONED