The Marked & The Menaced

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>The Marked...</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Tameer always believed love was a weakness-a dangerous distraction no one in his line of work could afford. But after watching Leah fall for Ash and spending a year alongside Irena and Dimitri as their love-and their son-grew he started to question that belief. Back in Vexia he decides it's time to carve out a life of his own. Maybe not one filled with love but one that's his. No more living in service of his sisters. It's time to forge his own path.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But the Thieves' Guild has other plans.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Retirement isn't an option when you've been marked for death the moment you walk away.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>The Menaced...</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Oliver hated everything.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Well-maybe not everything-but how do you enjoy anything when the threat of your brother's death never leaves your mind? The Guild has been using Matty's illness to control their family for years. One job one dose. Just enough to keep Matty alive for another month.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Oliver should be numb to it by now.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>But this job is different. This one requires a kill.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>And Oliver is no killer.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Now he must choose: take a stranger's life or lose Matty forever.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Some choices aren't choices at all.</span></p>