Nancy Lauren and Venerio were college sweethearts for four beautiful years. The kind of love that felt like forever.Then one day, Nancy vanished. No fight. No warning. Just an empty closet and a stack of cash on the table for rent.She left to protect him.What Venerio never told her was that she wasn't the only one hiding a dangerous secret. He wasn't a poor college boy. He was Venerio Octavian — the heir to the most ruthless underground family in the country. The devil everyone whispers about in a white shirt.He laughed when he found the money. A bitter, broken laugh. She thought he needed saving. She had no idea he was the one she should have been afraid of.Two years later, Nancy Lauren, now a ghost assassin, takes on her biggest contract: Kill the heir of Octavian.She slips into the mansion in black, unseen, untouchable — until she looks up and sees him.The boy she left behind is gone. In his place stands a man in a white shirt, a sword tattoo peeking from his back — the mark of Octavian's leader. Cold. Dangerous. Beautiful. And staring right at her.She runs. But Octavian always collects his debts.And she owes him three days.Tropes: Mafia Romance | College Lovers to Enemies to Lovers | Second Chance | He Fell First and Harder | Assassin x Mafia Heir | Possessive Male Lead | Hidden Identity