Vindicate by AJ Nicole

Vindicate is a dark thriller romance with mayhem, murder, mystery, and an MMC who is hellbent on inflicting pain. Please read this story with caution.

Olivia:
Everything has been stripped from me. And it all started the night I decided to let you in. You took from me and left me to deal with my pain and my grief alone, leaving me threaded into the fabrics of this skeletal town. And I’m so close to putting it all behind me. But seeing you again after all this time—shrouded in darkness, dripping with what my fears are made of—doesn’t remind me of the way you used to look at me when I was your entire world. No. Instead, it shows me just how reckless I was for letting you close enough to break me apart in the first place. A mistake I won’t make twice.
Unless you can learn to live up to your promises.

Trace:
I would have burned the world for you. In fact, I still might. But not without inflicting a little pain in the interim. You see, I made you a promise the night you let me take from you: If you run, I will find you. Now, as I watch you from the shadows of the forest, teetering the edge of craving my revenge and drowning in my hunger for your soul, I know you’re going to be worth the chase. And I won’t stop until I take back what is mine.
I always keep my promises, love.