hoedontkillmavibe
"every breath you take in my name fucking disgusts me," he said.
"then stop saying it," she snapped, stepping closer, "or i'll carve mine into your chest so you never forget who's going to end you."
the world calls him italy's deadliest weapon. a man who watched his bloodline get slaughtered and turned grief into something lethal. cold. unforgiving.
and her?
she's america's finest assassin. the one whose name is whispered before bodies drop, the one accused of ordering the very massacre that shattered him.
they didn't grow up together.
they didn't fall for each other.
they weren't even supposed to matter to one another.
but somewhere between bloodshed and betrayal, their names started appearing in the same places, on the same files, the same failed missions, the same bodies.
too many coincidences to ignore.
too deliberate to forgive.
he knows what she did.
he's seen the aftermath, counted the losses, buried what was left of his family with her name carved into every rumor, every piece of evidence that pointed straight at her.
and she knows what he is.
a man who doesn't miss.
a man who leaves people alive only when he wants them to understand how close they came to dying.
they've never had a conversation.
only consequences.
only patterns.
because this was never just about revenge.
it's about control.
about who breaks first.
about who gets to rewrite the story of what really happened.
and the deeper they dig into each other,
the more it stops feeling like a war
and starts feeling like something far worse.
something intentional.
like they were never meant to win.
only meant to destroy.
"you think a ring makes you untouchable? i'll still find ways to break you," he said, voice flat, like it was already decided.
"try it," she replied, a faint, humorless smile on her lips, "and i'll make you wish you'd just fucking killed me instead."