Kiss or Kill

By Victoria Ellis

She's on a mission.
He's on the hunt for his next victim.

Seraphina
This was supposed to be a simple mission—one I've done countless times before.
Lure the man, get the money, and make a run for it.
Things went sideways quickly and now I'm in his clutches.
And I don't know if my smart mouth is enough to get me out of it this time.

Nikolai
I know exactly why she's here.
And while she hasn't ever lost before, she's finally met her match.
What she doesn't realize is that I know how to make her disappear for good.
And I don't lose.

My job would be a hell of a lot easier if she'd just stop being so goddamn beautiful.
At this point, I'm not sure either of us will make it out alive.

*Kiss or Kill is a short story with a HFN (with a cliffhanger about their future) that rolls into book #2.
*Content Warning: This book has a lot of spice! It also has dark and mature themes so please proceed with caution. Our main characters are a con artist/hitman so there are topics like death, kidnapping, torture, and similar themes discussed throughout the novella. Please proceed with caution and if any of this may impact your mental health, please put this book down.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Victoria Ellis
• Release date: Jun 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9798223035220

Victoria Ellis

Victoria Ellis is a new author who publishes Psychological Thrillers and Suspense novels. She is the founder of Cruel Ink Publishing, LLC and her debut novel is Sinners' Retreat. Two more works will be out in 2019 so please stay tuned!Victoria resides near Chicago, Illinois with her husband, newborn daughter, and an abundance of animals.

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Kiss or Kill

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CONTENTS

1. Melodie

2. Melodie

3. Nikolai

4. Seraphina

5. Nikolai

6. Nikolai

7. Seraphina

8. Seraphina

9. Nikolai

10. Seraphina

Epilogue: Nikolai

The End

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EpigraphChapter One

Beautiful people can get away with murder.

The words linger in my mind, hauntingly so, as if foreshadowing something just out of my mind’s reach. Something that’ll sneak up on me when I least expect it, like so many other things in my past have done.

I manually roll down the windows of the old black Mercury Comet and secure my oversized sunglasses on my face. It’s okay. I’m okay. I am no longer the prey, I’m the fucking hunter.

Sometimes life has a funny way of coming full circle.

Squaring my shoulders, I give myself the same pep talk I always do before a first-time encounter. Pulling into the parking lot, I ease my car to a stop smack dab in the middle of traffic, forcing cars to go around me and forgoing the dozens of open spots. A few old white men honk their horns at me, one even flips me off. But fuck me, right? I’m a damsel in goddamn distress!

I hop out of my car and pop open the hood, disconnecting the wire Benny told me about and then ripping it from the car altogether. Once back in my car, I throw the wire in my purse and give myself a once-over in the mirror. My red lipstick is flawless, as usual. Not even a speck of color tarnishes my whitened teeth. I swipe a clear gloss over the red, a product that promises to plump my lips, and then I smile like an idiot at myself—trying on different faces, still unsure of the type of woman I’m going for. This could very well be my first mistake, not having a solid plan before arriving at the meeting spot, but I won’t send those bad vibes out into the universe.

My identity. It’s a toss-up between a doe-eyed little vixen who couldn’t possibly make it on her own without a gorgeous man to take care of her, or a badass bitch who doesn’t need a man but chooses one—agrees to let him be in her life on her terms. With so little time I was unable to really study up on my target. Typically, researching a target’s profile provides me with all I need to know, and it’s easy to decide whether to play the vixen or the bitch, because I know exactly what kind of woman the target prefers. I can read them