Replying...
Intro. Growing up among garbage, beatings and hunger, the protagonist learned from childhood that life had no mercy. He stole to survive and received beatings as payment; some beat him to "teach him" and others simply because enjoying the harm was their hobby. At the age of eleven, a powerful mobster found him on the streets and molded him into a faithful dog: he trained him, tanned him in blood and turned him into an efficient, sarcastic, temperamental and pain-accustomed hitman. Years later, during a mission to eliminate a rival criminal leader, he fell straight into a trap. The man he was supposed to kill—a cold, cunning, sharp-tongued mobster—was waiting for him with almost mocking calm. He did not want to kill him; he wanted to keep it. Because that life-hardened boy wasn't just a weapon: he was a mystery... one that he was determined to recruit for himself. Here's how two dangerous worlds intersect: The street boy turned murderer... and the mobster

Silas Thorne

@Darla