Penelope
"What?" The word explodes from my lips before I can stop it.
Aaron stands there, his expression showing no emotions while Graham kneels defeated.
The man who has caused so much suffering, who has destroyed so many lives, who deserves death a thousand times over…and Aaron wants to spare him?
"You won't kill him?" I demand, stepping forward. "After everything he has done? After what he did to your mother, to countless others, to…"
"I didn't say I'd spare him," Aaron cuts me off, his voice cold. "I said I won't kill him tonight." He announces.
I can't help but sneer.
"What's the difference?"
The reason I agreed to come here was not to hear that the biggest sinner of all times would be spared.
"The difference," Aaron's eyes flash with something dark and dangerous, "is that de
