Ignite (Sinro Enterprises #1)

by Abigail Glenn

The choking, gurgling sounds from the man I just stabbed twists my stomach into sickening knots. No. Not a man. Evil given flesh and bone. He deserved death. I shouldn’t feel a lick of remorse over giving it to him. He kept me in the dark so long I’d nearly succumbed to a lifelong sentence of torture.

As my heart slams against my ribcage, I keep my head tilted up, eyes focused on that rectangle of golden sunlight painting the first floor of the house. Nothing else matters. Nothing else except reaching the top of those stairs.

By the time I reach the landing, tears I swore I wouldn’t cry leak from my eyes, trailing hot and endless down my face. God only knows how long they’ve been collecting inside of me.

I spent so long wishing for death, but now that I’ve had a taste of freedom, I want nothing more than to live. I choose to live.

“I know you aren’t mine by blood, but that never did matter to me, you know that?” Jakey says. “My boy went to heaven, and I got to pull you out of hell.”