No One Has to Know (Deal with the Devil)

by Carin Hart

I’m a bad man. I do what I want—take what I want—and the whole damn world lets me because I have a badge.

“I killed for you. I’d die for you. You’re my goddamn world, the only thing worth anything in this life. I love you. You love me. Now fucking tell me.”

“If I thought I would lose you, I wouldn’t fucking hesitate to pull the trigger.”

“Angela… if I put this on your finger, that’s it. Nothing short of you stabbing me in the fucking heart will get me to agree to let you take it off again. Even then, I’ll plead with you as I bleed out to keep it on until I’m dead and can’t see you without it. I’m that fucking serious. Do you understand me?”