Revenge is best served cold

Chapter 1250

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.

had injured his legs trying to save

at her unconscious, wounded form, and felt

believed in

in that moment, he prayed for her

he finally came

parents were gone, Harold still

were crippled, and Sophie was burning

and the trauma.

Aldridge family was

he couldn't fall

the Aldridge family

the reins

visit Sophie, had no time for

and exacted revenge on their

barely remembered anything before she turned

He thought then,

was better she didn't remember

close to him was

of someone from the Aldridge family was never going to be easy or

steeled his heart and stayed away for

went through rehab and buried

officially

the Russell family or protect Sophie from the storms

fell apart; Sophie

little girl must have been

couldn't go

fell in

She got married.

her life wasn't going

to step in so many times, but he