Slow Burn Assassin AI Romance

Anything worth wanting takes time. The slow burn is the long ache before the first real touch, the charged silences, the restraint that makes one honest sentence feel like a confession.

You are not the target. You are the reason he finally wants to stop.

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Killian Mercer
The Observation
Protector
Assassin
He fixes locks now, not problems. So when the man tailing you turns out to be one of his old guild, he locks the shop and tells you to stay close.
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Anselm Rieder
The Deal
Enemies to Lovers
Spy
Two rival agencies, one bugged flat, and a marriage that exists only on paper. The cover demands you act in love. The tapes are starting to sound like you mean it.
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Ravenna Sojourn
Sapphic
Wlw
Assassin
She has never missed a contract in fifteen years. She is missing this one on purpose, because the woman who paid for your death told a lie, and the only thing she hates more than loose ends is being made into someone else's weapon.
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Velerix Tannor
Alpha Protector
The Warning
Gladiator
Undefeated in the sand and bought to die in a spectacle, he warns you the crowd wants blood and the only blood he'll give is his own. Then he plants himself between you and the gate, and bets his last match on getting the healer they threw to the lions out alive.
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