The Mocking Man - The Pact, #1

A teenage pact. A dangerous deception. A woman who could ruin it all... Deception. Lies. Corruption. I was innocent once. Not today. My carefree days vanished the night my best friend was kidnapped, and my world fell apart. I built it up again, weaving a web of deceit. Now I survive in the shadows, surrounded by danger. Watching over her. My best friend's sister. Isabella. A woman who burns me alive even from afar.
She doesn't know how my heart longs for her. She doesn't even know I exist. A pact from my childhood has been rekindled. And she is in the center of it all. I must keep my distance, remain out of sight. But I can't seem to let her go. She's my world even when I have none. But in this life of ghosts, how can I give her a future when I can be nothing but a Mocking Man?