Warning: this book is meant for a mature audience over the age of 18.

Aura cannot find out that I'm alive. If she does, it won't bode well for her. She wouldn't be safe like she is now, her mother wouldn't be safe. Many people would be out to get her, not just our government but lots of horrendous people, clients of her father. Previous clients. They would kill her without hesitation and I am the only living link to her. If she's with me, they get her. It's better for me to keep them off track, for the previous clients to follow me across the world and back, believing I know where she is in hiding.

Although she isn't in hiding but in plain sight, just irrevocably changed. Changed because of my actions, Guillermo's actions, his selfish wants. She isn't the Aura that I kidnapped a year ago, the same innocent soul I met then. She's grown harsh to the world and with good reason. No matter how much I tried to keep her safe, to keep her naïve and protect her, in the end I couldn't accomplish the impossible. I broke her down, tarnished her heart, and ripped her soul apart. I'm undeserving to be forgiven, not by her, her mother of even God. When judgment day comes down upon me, it's something I would gladly repent for throughout eternity. Ultimately, that's exactly what I deserve.