LailaniOut of all the jobs I’ve had over the years, this has to be the most mundane.It requires me to be someone completely different. A meek, quiet girl working to put herselfthrough college. I really do deserve an Oscar.It’s easy money, though. And honestly, it almost feels like a vacation compared to theassignments I’m used to taking on.I’ve even managed to score myself a quick fling with a hot-as-sin bad boy. The problem is,he’s fallen for the act and has no idea who I really am.Until my cover is blown, and I have no choice but to do the job I’ve been paid to do…It shouldn’t matter. It’s just a fling, right? At least that’s what I’m telling myself when I seethe disappointment in his eyes and not the lust I’m used to finding there.SammieI’m good at reading people. It’s a big part of why I’m as successful as I am.Nobody gets past me. No one.Until her.My gut told me from the start that something was different about her. I put it down to lust. Towanting something I shouldn’t.A younger woman, with little experience and a whole lot of innocence. A woman whobelongs nowhere near a man like me.I took her anyway. I shielded her from the darkness in our world as best I could.Little did I know, I didn’t need to shield her from anything. Because , as it turns out, she isthe darkness in our world.