Deadly Promises (The Unmentionable #4)

I didn’t ask for a hero.

Callum is my sister’s husband—a man who smiles too easily, with golden retriever charm and a relentless sense of duty that ties him to a marriage that’s slowly rotting him alive. He’s untouchable. Off-limits. Everything I shouldn’t want.

But now, we’re running for our lives, and I don’t know who’s protecting who anymore.

It started with a flat tire, a kind gesture, and a man who stepped out of the shadows with a shotgun and a smile that still makes my stomach churn. He told us to run. Gave us a ten-minute head start like this was a game he’s played before. Like he knows exactly how it ends.

Callum says he won’t let anything happen to me. He says he’ll keep me safe.

But the woods are dark, and the river is colder than death, and no amount of promises can drown out the sound of the psycho’s voice in the distance—soft, taunting, so sure he’ll find me.

I’m going to find you, Josie. And when I do…

I’m not ready to die. But I’m not sure I’m strong enough to survive what comes next.

This isn’t just a chase. It’s a reckoning.

And I think the real danger isn’t what’s hunting us—it’s what’s building between us in the dark, what Callum and I are too afraid to name.

If we survive the night, nothing will ever be the same.