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.

he finally

were gone, Harold still not

burning up with fever from her injuries and

family

he couldn't

year, the Aldridge family took a massive

reins his father

visit Sophie, had no time for

Harold and exacted

her fever, barely

He thought then,

was better she didn't remember

him was like inviting

wife of someone from Aldridge

be

be

yor safe.

his heart and stayed away for

SWI

those years, he went through rehab and buried himself in

he had officially

his power, he

from

outside.

family fell apart; Sophie lost

must have been in

he couldn't go to

fell in love with someone

She got married.

her life wasn't going

so many times, but he was just an insignificant

man with crippled

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