When I First Met You; Killian - The Death Merchants, #2

Abagaliá has spent her entire life trying to shrink herself. But her destiny is about to expand.

No matter what she did, Abby's body refused to venture past a curvy size fourteen. In a world obsessed with unrealistic expectations, it completely robbed her of her self-esteem. Combine that with the terrifying, unexplainable psychic visions she's been having since the age of ten, and Abby felt like an absolute freak. To survive, she kept to herself, hiding in the safe bubble of work and family.

Then she hopped on the train and grabbed a stranger's hand.

The moment their skin touched, a violent shockwave snapped between them. The raw, dormant magic Abby spent her whole life trying to ignore surged right up through her veins and shot straight into him. To Abby's absolute shock, the handsome stranger didn't freak out. He just chuckled, stepped off the train as the doors opened, and vanished into the crowd like nothing had happened.

But for Killian, everything had changed.

He knew from the exact millisecond her hand gripped his that she was his fated mate. After four hundred and fifty years of cold solitude, the instant joining elated something primal deep within his soul. He thought he had time to play the chase. He was dead wrong.

A sudden, horrific premonition rips through the ether: Killian sees Abby walking straight into a deadly ambush where the ruthless Tafar lunges from the shadows with a blade. The clock is officially ticking. Killian has to unleash every dark asset at his disposal to hunt down his mystery train ride across the city. He needs to find her, and find her quick—or his long-awaited queen will be dead within twenty-four hours.

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