Restitution (The Edge of Darkness, #3)

by Leigh Rivers

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. You’re okay. You’re safe with me,” he says softly as he strokes my hair, letting me cry into his chest. “I found you, little one.”

“You are also my priority. I would have always hunted for you to the ends of the fucking earth, little one.

If Stacey ever lets me hold her hand again, will she feel all the death I’ve caused?

I was in love with Kade Mitchell, and now he’s going to kill me.

Stacey Rhodes. My girl. My anchor that sank to the bottom of the ocean without me.

“I’ll leave your hearing, so I can tell you when I win her back, so you can hear her moaning my fucking name. When I marry her. When she births my fucking children. And guess what? I’ll have all of that. You won’t. Because Stacey Rhodes has been mine since the day I fucking met her.”

“Why do I waste my time with you?” “Because your dad is dead and I’m the replacement?”

“I wish I could be the old me again,” I admit quietly. “I hate who I am now. Because all I can think about is killing people.” She shifts but not out of discomfort. “Who do you want to kill?” “Everyone who’s ever wronged you, hurt you, touched you without your consent. I want to rip them all apart. I’d ruin myself to keep you safe.”

“I want your heart, every single fucking fragment that I’ve broken over the years. I have your past and your present, and I want to be a selfish asshole and have your future.”