I breathed a sigh of relief the moment the Elder’s presence left. With him gone, I was able to be honest with myself regarding why I wanted Sofia. She gave me a lingering sense of hope.
At that moment, I swore to myself that I would do everything to get Derek Novak out of the picture and make Sofia mine. Because if her light could still save the likes of Derek Novak, perhaps I still wasn’t too far gone.
Sofia represented the one thing that had eluded me over the past centuries: redemption.