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His heart beat faster. Beau knew trouble when he saw it. And he was staring straight at some serious, serious trouble. Only that trouble was disguised as a cute teen girl.
“You’re my hero,” she told him.
He’d never been that before. And he knew he never would be again. He was on a different path. One full of destruction and pain. But…
But for just a moment, with her, he became something else.
Something—someone—who wasn’t so disturbed. Who wasn’t chased by demons and pain. Someone who could touch something good and not destroy it.
He became Avalon’s hero.
And she…
She became his hope.
Chapter One
Avalon Trahan sat across the table from an ice-cold serial killer. His bright blue eyes showed no emotion. No curiosity. She wasn’t sure that Everett Thomas actually felt emotions. At least, not the way most people did. Normal people.
Though, over the years, Avalon had come to understand that “normal” was really a very relative term.
Two guards were in the small room at the prison with her. Everett was cuffed—ankles and wrists all connected together and secured to the floor. She shouldn’t be afraid of him. There was no way he could hurt her in this environment.
But staring into his soulless eyes, Avalon felt her stomach drop.
This was the man who had brutally murdered four women before finally being apprehended and found guilty. Georgia had the death penalty, and Everett was in line to get a needle shoved into his arm. Death would be coming for the man who’d so cruelly tortured others.
“Pretty lady, what do you want with me?” Everett asked softly. His gaze never left hers.
“My name is Avalon. I’m a writer.”
He didn’t change expressions.
“I’m curious about your story.”
Now, for the first time, his eyes did seem to lighten with emotion. An almost feverish intensity. “You want to hear about what I did to them?”
Them. The women he’d hurt. Viciously abused with his knife.
Avalon kept her hands beneath the table. This wasn’t her first time to speak with a sadistic killer. Actually, her job involved talking to the worst of the monsters out there. Plenty of people thought that she was crazy to do this particular job, but it had called to her over the years. Darkness always called to her. Or at least, it had since the night her life had changed when fire swept into her world.
Her chin lifted. “I want to hear about the night the police caught you.”
His eyes narrowed.
“They found you handcuffed and unconscious in that barn.”
He leaned forward.
The guard on the right tensed.
Avalon didn’t alter her pose. “You seemed to be in the process of fleeing. You had a bag found in the trunk of your car.” The bag had contained clothing.
As well as several knives. Duct tape. Photos of his vics.
Everett grunted.
“But someone…stopped…you from running.” A mystery that had been in the news ever since Everett’s arrest. “I would like to know what happened.”
