[Girl x Assassin; Nineteenth-Century Redemptive Fiction]
As a thief, Liz spent her days roaming the streets to scrape by.
One day, someone chased her, and in her desperation she hid behind a tall man's cloak.
She had been watching him for days: curly black hair, a black top hat, and a scar running across his emerald-green eye, making his already stern face look even more grim and fearsome.
Perhaps he thought she looked small and pitiful. A few days earlier, the man had bought her a basket of bread without saying a word, then turned and left.
He was fierce, but soft-hearted. Hiding behind him, Liz escaped trouble just as she'd hoped.
She noticed he carried both a knife and a gun. So cool. She was hooked.
At first, Dexter treated her like she wasn't there. Liz had to run three steps to catch up with one of his.
Later, he carried her in the crook of his arm while she pounded on his head with her fists, shouting that he was stubborn and inflexible.
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As an assassin, Dexter's life consisted of four things: eating, sleeping, killing, and brooding.
That was until he met Liz.
Bright and headstrong, the girl claimed to be the best thief in the area and barged into his life for no reason at all.
From then on, Dexter's life was full of questions:
How to make a girl wear her shoes properly;
How to get a girl to go to sleep obediently;
How to reason with a girl;
How to coax a girl when she's angry and won't talk to him.
At last, the money Dexter had earned in five years as an assassin had found its purpose: taking care of Liz.
He thought he saw Liz as a little sister, until he saw her blushing as she spoke with a young man.
Jealousy surged through him, impossible to control. He stayed silent and didn't take the hand Liz held out to him, but still reminded her to drink her milk.
That night, when Liz got up, she saw a scrap of paper on the bedside table.
It read: Don't like him.
Beside it lay a bright red rose.
Both leads are each other's first and only. The male lead has no romantic history. Before meeting the female lead, he was an assassin who walked with a swagger and liked to brood whenever he had nothing to do.
There's an age gap and a size difference. The author's kinks are on full display.
The leads save each other.
Theme: Tomorrow will be better
