Chapter 624:

How did things end up like this? Just a strange twist of fate. “As long as it remains, it feels like… a part of her is still here, with me.”

Kellan had listened intently from beginning to end. He held Allison’s fingers tightly.

“Then I’ll be here with you, too.” His voice was husky and possessive.

When their eyes met, there was something raw in his gaze that nearly unsettled her. “Allison, thank you for telling me.”

It was a gesture of trust, of baring her soul to him.

She teased, “I thought you might ask if I’d ever killed innocents, just to be safe.”

faint smile tugged at Kellan’s

blade were far from innocent. More people in this world deserve to die than we can count. If taking them down is a crime, then I suppose

to his words, a brutal honesty she rarely encountered—and it brought her an

tied to

killed, constantly pursued for the secrets her mother left behind,

she had never thought anyone would accept her past, let alone stand beside her. Yet Kellan was willing not only to accept it but

have a simple life. But

only tightened his hold on her

said I was living a

charmed by the rare

for their innocence. Rumor has it you’re ruthless, cold-blooded, that you work both the legal and the

had sensed his darkness ever since their time together on the Burned

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