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

gone, Harold still not

and Sophie was burning up with fever from

family was in

couldn't

Aldridge family

took up the reins his father left

couldn't visit Sophie, had no time for anything outside

saved Harold and exacted revenge on their

fever, barely remembered

He thought then,

was better

to him was

from Aldridge

be

be

yor safe.

his heart and stayed away for six

SWI

through

seventeen, he had officially

his

from the

outside.

fell apart; Sophie lost her

little girl must have been in so much

he couldn't go

and she fell in love with someone

She got married.

her life wasn't going

so many times, but

crippled legs, surrounded by