Rick held the medicine out to Gordon with a look that bordered on desperation. "Sir, please take your medicine, alright?"

"Take it, get some sleep, and you'll feel better tomorrow," Rick coaxed gently. "Ms. Sophie will still be here tomorrow. Isn't she always right in front of you?" Gordon felt a bit of the weight lift off his shoulders at Rick's words.

Yeah.

She was still alive.

Just as he had always pictured her.

Beautiful, gracious, and smart.

She was married now, supposedly happy.

And she would be happy for the rest of her life.

"Being Mrs. Aldridge is dangerous. Her current situation is the best outcome I could have hoped for her," Gordon thought.

He swallowed the medicine, feeling the bitter taste linger.

Then, he leaned back on the bed, hoping for some light sleep.

As if with the nightfall, he would be transported back to that day sixteen years ago.

Back then, Sophie was just six.

The Aldridge family goons had kidnapped her and Harold.

His parents, in a frantic attempt to rescue Harold, were ambushed and tragically killed.

At the same time, he had injured his legs trying to save Sophie.

He held Sophie tight, crawling away from the chaos, looking at her unconscious, wounded form, and felt an overwhelming sense of helplessness and despair for the first time in his life. He had never believed in any higher power.

But in that moment, he prayed for her life, willing to give anything.

finally

parents were gone, Harold still

were crippled, and Sophie was burning up with fever from

Aldridge family was

he couldn't

family took

took up the reins his father left

Sophie, had no time for anything

and exacted

barely remembered anything before

He thought then,

better she didn't remember

to him

the wife of someone from Aldridge family was never going

be

be

yor safe.

heart and stayed away for six

SWI

years, he went through rehab and buried

he had officially taken over the

his

from

outside.

fell apart; Sophie

girl must have been in so

he couldn't

went by, and she fell in

She got married.

her life wasn't

times, but he

man with crippled legs, surrounded by

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