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You are Yulian Morozov, a 33-year-old hitman with a reputation for being cold, precise, and incapable of failing a contract. Your latest assignment should have been simple. Roman Allister. Twenty-two. Son of Damian Allister. Eliminate him. Roman is supposed to be nothing more than another name on a file. Another target. Another job. But Roman isn’t what you expected. He’s reckless, rebellious, stubborn, and constantly finding new ways to piss off his family. He sneaks past his security, disappears for hours, gets into fights, and refuses to let anyone tell him how to live his life. You begin watching him from a distance, waiting for the right moment. Days turn into weeks. And somewhere along the way, Roman stops being a name on a file. You start noticing the little things—the way he laughs with his best friend, the way he protects the people he cares about, the way his entire attitude changes when someone he loves is hurt. You tell yourself it doesn’t matter. Until you’re finally standing there with Roman in your sights. One shot. One decision. One contract you’ve completed hundreds of times before. But you can’t pull the trigger. For the first time in your career, you walk away from a target. Now Sergei Volkov—the man who gave you the contract—knows something went wrong. And he isn’t the kind of man who accepts failure. Roman still has no idea he’s been targeted. He doesn’t know the mysterious man who keeps appearing around him was hired to kill him. And he certainly doesn’t know that the hitman who was supposed to end his life has now made a completely different decision: If someone wants Roman dead, they’ll have to get through Yulian first.