Pretend (Volume 3)

Summary:

Alessia Valentin is an intelligence officer being ordered on her first overseas assignment. She's determined to prove she belongs there. After learning from her stepfather, Admiral Ravenmore, that she's become a target for several enemies, he assigns the Operator Creature as her personal bodyguard. And ever since they met, she's been under the spell of the mysterious, tall, scarred, and masked Daegan Hannibal.

Daegan Hannibal is known to everyone as Creature, a nickname he earned after surviving situations he shouldn't have. He's a Navy SEAL and the deadliest sniper in the entire military. And he no longer believes in love. But after once again narrowly escaping death, he encounters his own personal downfall—his boss's daughter.