I Promise You (Scarred Executioners #2)

by Lexie Axelson

“He can’t hurt you anymore. They can’t hurt you anymore. As long as I’m around, no one will hurt you again, I promise you.”

“I’ve got you for the rest of my life. I’m not going anywhere. I promise you.”

“Everything will be okay, Ari. I know it’s not right now…but someday, everything will be okay, I promise you.”

She is my safe haven. She is the sanctuary I didn’t see coming.

I will set the whole world on fire if she dies on me. There is no me without her.

She has my pathetic, blackened soul wrapped around her wings. And there’s no coming back from this.

“I won’t let you leave me, Ari. Grant me mercy by putting a bullet in my head, then. Because I’d rather die than live in a world where someone else has your soul and not me.”

“But someone taught me the realness behind an emotion I’ve managed to avoid my entire life.” He looks at me again, licking his lips. “Now I know it’s not a weakness, but a strength. It’s a fucking strength to fear you might lose the ones you love most because it makes you want to fight that much harder.”