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“You will,” I insisted for the tenth time in the last few hours. “I swear it. As soon as I can. No matter how long it takes.” Fuck, this was gutting me. My breaths were slower, shallower, as I tried to calm my growing panic.
This was it.
> How did I move on? How did I let her walk away? How did –
“I’ll wait for you,” she promised, her sweet voice cutting off my thoughts.
“You will?” I couldn’t keep the hope out of my voice. I was a fool, but I’d grasp onto anything that gave me the promise of a chance, no matter how far in the future.
“I promise,” she whispered, pulling me in for another kiss, and I couldn’t deny her.
“When I find you, I’m going to marry you, baby,” I was dead serious. No more bullshit. I just had to get through the next few days and then I would spend every second loving her until I died. I’d find a way.
I had to find a way.
“And I’ll say yes.”
When my lips met hers, slanting across in a fierce possession and flaming passion, she thrust her body against mine, so tight and close we could have been one person. Trembling, I crushed her to my chest, swallowing hard when I saw who was approaching up the long dirt drive.
We had just seconds left . . .
Fuck!
No. No. No.
“I’ll love you forever,” I choked out, barely able to let the words pass my lips.
I wanted to believe the feds would keep to their end of the bargain, but I had a sinking feeling in my gut they’d do whatever they wanted. A moment of panic hit me square in the chest and I had the sudden urge to run, as fast and as far as I could with her until nobody knew who we were and couldn’t ever find us.
But that would be wrong. I couldn’t force her into that kind of life, always looking over her shoulder. She would never be happy and would hate me in the end.
So I lied to her, placated her with all the ways I would make this right and find her, how I’d buy us that perfect house with a white picket fence and treehouse built for two, and how we’d have our happily ever after.
How I wished all these promises were true. I’d die to give her that reality . . . and I probably would sooner rather than later. My soul was sold to the devil, and my ass was on a one-way ticket to hell.
Fuck! Everything was slipping through my fingers, all my effort, all my hard work. Gone. I wanted to believe I had control. But I didn’t and now everything was ripped away.
It was too late.
Rae was lost to me forever now, and that reality was fucking eating me alive.
I resisted the urge to jump in the car with her but I wasn’t a coward and I had a score to settle.
Revenge was my source of strength and fuel to make it through this day.
The feds were here, allowing us one final embrace before Rae was whisked away. The tears in her eyes slipped down her cheeks as her hand rose to one of the darkened windows of the black sedan, palm pressed flat to the glass. I lifted my own and blew her a kiss, placing my hand over my heart, trying desperately not to let the emptiness consume me. I wanted to claw the organ still beating from inside my chest. This was too painful.
All I could do was watch her drive away in the unmarked car and hope she forgave me. Rae would be long gone before she realized my treachery and lies. Despite the possibility that the feds would let me go to her I knew it would never happen. The truth would break her heart when she realized I wasn’t able to follow her but she would be alive and unharmed. She would survive. In the end, that’s all that mattered.
Rae would live. Peter would die.
In my place was born a ruthless, angry, and bitter man whose soulless existence was all I had left.
A demon. A monster.
A killer. Edge was born this day out of the ashes of my sorrow and broken heart, but I had a plan.
Those who forced Rae away from me would pay.
