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.

time, he had injured his legs trying to save

wounded form, and felt an overwhelming sense of helplessness and despair for the first

never believed in

in that moment, he prayed for her life, willing

finally

parents were gone,

crippled, and Sophie was burning up with

and the trauma.

Aldridge family was in

he couldn't fall

year, the Aldridge family took a

reins his

had no time for anything

exacted

barely remembered anything before she turned

He thought then,

better she

him

wife of someone from the Aldridge family was never going to

stayed away for six

years, he went through

seventeen, he had officially taken

shield the Russell

Russell family fell apart;

little girl must have been in so much

he couldn't go to

fell

She got married.

life wasn't going

to step in so many times, but