Nero: alliance series book one - s. j. tilly

Payton Running away from home at 17 wasnt easy.

Lets face it though, nothing before, or in the ten years since, has ever been easy for me.

And Im doing okay.

Sorta.

I just need to keep scraping by, living under the radar.

Staying out of peoples way, off peoples minds.

So when a man walks through my open patio door, stepping boldly into my home, and my life, I should be scared.

Frightened.

Terrified.

But I must be more broken than I realized, because Im none of those things.

Im intrigued.

And Im wondering if the way to take control of my life is by giving in to him.

Nero The first time I took a mans life, I knew thered be no going back.

No normal existence in the cards for me.

So instead of walking away, I climbed a mountain of bodies, and created my own destiny.

By forming The Alliance.

And I was fine with that.

Content enough to carry on.

Until I stepped through those open doors, and into her life.

I shouldve walked away.

Shouldve gone right back out the door I came through.

But I didnt.

And now her life is in danger.

But thats the thing about being a bad man.

Ill happily paint the streets red to protect whats mine.

And Payton is mine.

Whether she knows it or not.