Vows of Vengeance

Summary

At eighteen, Caleb Thorne shielded me in his arms. He took a brutal beating from a gang, leaving him bloodied and barely clinging to life.

As he lay on the gurney, someone asked if he regretted it.

Barely conscious, he let out a reckless, wild laugh:

"Regret? Hell no. What are two broken legs compared to this?"

"I’ve got myself a wife for life now!"

At twenty-eight, I slipped off my wedding ring. Along with a pink hair tie I’d found in his pocket, I handed it all back to him.

He took the hair tie—the one his little college mistress had used to provoke me.