Simeon's Promise II

Inhaling the mingled scents of pine and parched earth, Simeon perched on a forested hill in New Mexico, eyes shut, mediating on the being who framed him. Weeks before, he was breathless when Nadine arrived at the front gates of Leavenworth Penitentiary; journeying there to retrieve the innocent man she locked in that place for more than fourteen years, before storming back into his life after revealing the truth. He might have strangled her that day if not for the promise to his dying parents… He would try to forgive the woman whose lies robbed him of his life so that he could truly be free. Every moment together since was chaotic--volatile. But then she vanished.