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Prologue

Scarlett

March 31

The stone walls had been closing in all around od da heavy in the stale and musky air It was so thick, I could almost taste it

I’d never killed anyone before I’d never even held a gun before, but now he’d leftelse from me No more!

I stood on shaky legs and er I’d locked s were I was ready As ready as a person could be for a ined would come to pass

“I loved you,” I said, and despite the hoarseness of er than it had been in days

“After the horrible way you treated h, I still loved you,” I continued

I wanted him to know that this was for all of it That while he’d forcedto die for every one of his sins

And then it was tih seconds

“I love you,” I whispered as I pulled the trigger

It was true It was pathetic, but it was also true Despite what he’d done to me, I still loved him I suspected part of me, somewhere down deep inside, alould

The look of surprise that marred his handsoround And as if I’d taken the bullet, too, I dropped, landing hard on my knees It should have hurt, but I didn’t feel it