I promised her a year.
A year of revenge, of eradicating the people who hurt me. A year before we can be free. I didn't promise I'd survive it in one piece. Six months ago, we buried the first of them, and with each ghost of my rotten past that we slay, the demons only seem to crowd tighter around us. Choking what blossoms between us before it has a chance to flourish. The angry boy I once was comes clawing back to the surface, but Kat doesn't run. She doesn't flinch. She should. Her parents want to haul her back to her gilded prison. Marry her to someone with offshore accounts instead of scars. When blood and pain surround us, I want to shove her there, too. Not into the arms of another, but away from the darkness that stains me. She keeps choosing me. Then a name from the list starts using his connections to close in. A man who needs his sins to remain buried. I survived him once; I only hope we can this time. Vengeance is supposed to fix me, but it's unraveling me with each life I take. Beneath it all, there's only one thing keeping me sane. Kat. My golden-haired goddess. There are no limits to the depths of depravity I'll explore to end the danger to her. And the others. Narrated in duet style.
