A Promise of Peace

Sloane froze. Did his mother really choose to end her life on the very day he was born?

He said softly, “Don’t look at me with pity.” The thought flickered that he could have used her compassion to bind her closer, yet the idea tasted bitter on his tongue.

Her sympathetic gaze only sharpened his sense of disgrace.

She had lost every relative, yet she still shone. Friends, comrades, and mentors ral