Katya Ivanov first met Lyusina Nechayeva during a meeting with her godmother.
The girl wore white, her skirt stained with blood that had yet to dry. Her pale fingers held a head that had not yet fully cooled. She stood docilely beneath the dim yellow light, as if she had just finished a refined ballet performance. Her long black hair hung loose over her shoulders, and her face showed no fear, no excitement, not even the slightest hint of emotion. She simply looked up at Katya, gave her a faint glance, and smiled softly, with a gentleness that seemed impossible for someone who had just stained her hands with blood.
In that moment, Katya thought she was beautiful beyond words.
The Tarkovsky Theater's prima ballerina, Matyushka's "daughter," the perfect blade. She had been trained, a precisely calculated work of art, the gentlest and deadliest lie.
And Katya, the third daughter of the Ivanov family, a predator lingering at the edge of the power struggle, looked at her and smiled.
She wanted her.
But they both knew that the boundary between hunter and prey is often the first rule to be broken.
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Cool, sweet-faced, sinister assassin and ballerina x ambitious mafia third daughter
A powerful couple, switch, both villains, fake stepsisters.
Inspiration: John Wick
Background:
The Tarkovsky Theater is Paris's finest ballet company, with a long history. Its heavy velvet curtains conceal more than the dancers' graceful performances. During the depths of winter, the organization's third daughter met with the director, bringing news that her father's health was deteriorating. There, she encountered the theater's revered prima ballerina.
Premise: Finding oneself
