Poisoned Legacy

"It was you—always you! You refused to love me. I gave up everything, yet you walked away. You even left that cursed farewell. Why? Why condemn me so that I cannot even choose my own death?" With a sudden, feral burst, he lunged across the narrow visitor booth, arms slashing through the dim light like broken branches, aiming straight for Sloane.

Sloane had read the storm in his eyes well before it