Cut by the Don
But the hollow feeling remained.
Marco shifted behind me, a silent question. One word from me, and Vincent Rossi would disappear forever.
I looked at the man who had been my husband, my tormentor, and now, my supplicant. The rage that had fueled me for months finally sputtered and died, leaving behind a profound, exhausting clarity.
Revenge was a cycle. Killing him, or having him killed, would not un-brand me. It would not give me back my five years. It would only make me his final victim, forever chained to his darkness.