I Promise You (Scarred Executioners #2)

by Lexie Axelson

I wish it were me holding her instead; I let that thought go as quickly as it came; she’s Grim’s girl.

I pleaded with Death because her soul isn’t his. Hell, it’s not even hers–it’s mine.

“I’m sorry, Ari. I’m so fucking sorry. Cry, hit me as hard as you can, scream at me, hate me. I can take it. What I can’t take is you opening your stitches and bleeding again.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Kane might leave the military for you, but... I would die for you,”

“Hate me because the love I have for you is enough to withstand all the pain we’ve endured together and the pain that we’ll continue to go through.”

“I’ll get on my fucking knees and crawl to you if I have to, baby. I’ll burn this whole world for you to be mine forever. Say it.”