Festive Fugitive

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I didn't expect my Christmas gift to be six-foot-two a trained killer and obsessed with me.</strong></h4><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eli</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One bullet. One dead man. And now my wreck of a life is spiraling out of control.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The bastard deserved it but I'm just a regular guy. I botched the escape and since I killed him while wearing a Santa costume they call me the Festive Fugitive. Cute. Too bad I'll be spending Christmas behind bars or in a body bag.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then he appears. Cesar.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My dark salvation. A trained killer who looks at me as if I'm his personal miracle. I killed his boss yet he says I did him a favor. He wants to protect me claim me cage me in his arms and God help me... I let him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Because what's falling for a monster when there's a manhunt hot on my tail and a target on my back?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Cesar</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Taken as a child I was turned into a loyal weapon. I killed tortured burned and bled. I was respected and needed. Until I wasn't.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>When I lost an eye my master pushed me aside but as I waited for my 'one last job' so I could retire Eli pulled the trigger.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I never expected some half-starved grief-drunk civilian in a Santa outfit to free me but that's what happened.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eli is everything I am not-fragile impulsive untrained. And yet he killed the man I was bound to. He doesn't know it but he owns me now.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He thinks I'm his protector that I've taken him under my wing. But it's more than that.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's mine. My obsession. My purpose. My beautiful reckless mess of a man and I'll burn the world before I let anyone take him from me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I guess Christmas came early for Eli this year.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>★★★★★★★★★★</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Festive Fugitive is a standalone M/M dark romance where a trained killer takes an amateur vigilante under his wing and gets increasingly obsessed with his new ward. (+Christmas crafts!)</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Warnings: Violence strong language PTSD</span></p><p></p>