His Hidden Blade

Alone in the stairwell, the cleaner wipes her lip and looks up the stairs.

My lip was split and her fingers had left a new map on my arm, red turning purple over the old ones.

I waited until her steps died out. Then I went up, because the stairs she locked me in were the one place nobody watched.

His Hidden Blade

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Odile Ferrante kills from the dark. She has one rule: never let Ettore Malandri see her. He runs a crime family, and she has watched him for years. She clears his enemies before they get close. He never knows she is there. Then Ettore finds a body at his aquarium meeting and a cleaner's badge in the blood. He does not run. He starts looking for the woman who saves him. When he catches her, he gives her a key instead of a bullet. Now Odile is in his world. His men fear her. His enemies want her. Ettore claims her in front of everyone and tends her wounds himself. Odile has always been a weapon. With him, she almost believes she can be a woman who stays. Danger never leaves her. If anyone touches Ettore, Odile will kill them. She just has to survive long enough to let him hold her.