Nero - S.J Tilly

Payton.\n Running away from home at 17 wasn’t easy. Let’s face it though, nothing before, or in the ten years since, has ever been easy for me.\n And I’m doing okay. Sorta. I just need to keep scraping by, living under the radar. Staying out of people’s way, off people’s minds.\n So when a man walks through my open patio door, stepping boldly into my home, and my life, I should be scared. Frightened. Terrified.\n But I must be more broken than I realized, because I’m none of those things.\n I’m intrigued.\n And I’m wondering if the way to take control of my life is by giving in to him.\n Nero.\n The first time I took a man’s life, I knew there’d 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 desti