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?