Roxy’s condemnation enough to break what little was left of me. I’d abandoned her when she needed me most and now I’d watched as she stepped onto a path so steeped in darkness that it was hard to fathom any hope blossoming along the way. Worse. I may well have been the driving factor that pushed her to find this darkness through nothing more than my own selfish desire to reclaim a life which I had long ago forfeited any right to.
