Revenge is Best Served… After Reborn

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 came

were gone, Harold still

and Sophie was burning up with

family was in

he couldn't

year, the Aldridge family took a

reins his father

no time for anything outside of

and exacted

Sophie, due to her fever, barely remembered anything before she

He thought then,

it was better she

to him was like inviting

of someone from Aldridge family

be

be

yor safe.

heart and stayed away for six long

SWI

he went through rehab

had officially taken

even with all his power,

from

outside.

apart;

must have been in

couldn't go to

she fell in

She got married.

life wasn't

times, but he was just

with crippled