A Deleted Scene from Vows of Vengeance
Author’s Note
This scene was written during the early drafts of Vows of Vengeance. It takes place the night before the wedding, when Amara is alone in her hotel suite, finalizing her plan. I cut it from the final book because I felt it revealed too much of her hand too early. But I have always loved it because it shows you exactly who Amara is before the mask goes on.
Enjoy.
The Scene
The champagne was untouched.
Amara sat at the edge of the king-sized bed in her hotel suite, her wedding dress hanging from the wardrobe door like a beautiful ghost. Tomorrow she would wear it. Tomorrow she would walk down an aisle toward a man who had destroyed her family and smile at him as though he were the answer to every prayer she had ever whispered.
She was good at smiling at men who deserved nothing from her.
She opened her laptop and pulled up the file she had been building for three years. Photographs. Financial records. Testimonies from people whose names she had promised to protect until the right moment arrived. It was all there. Every piece of the puzzle that would bring Damien Okoye to his knees.
She just needed to get close enough to place the final piece.
Marriage was simply the most elegant way to do that.
Her phone buzzed. A message from her best friend, Zara.
“Are you absolutely sure about this? Because once you walk in there tomorrow you cannot walk back out the same person.”
Amara stared at the message for a long time.
Then she typed back.
“I stopped being that person three years ago. Tomorrow I just make it official.”
She closed the laptop and finally reached for the champagne.
She would need her sleep.
Tomorrow, she was getting married.
And the day after that, everything was going to burn.
The full story of Amara and Damien will leave you breathless.
