Romancing the Inner Demon
The past is the past, and nothing that has already happened can be changed. The only thing to do is to accept it and move on to the next stage in life.
Still, it was hard to imagine how his life would be without those things that he was used to. A world without the his syndicate family. A world without the rivalry, once friendly, turned deadly, between him and his former partner. A world without the woman of his dreams, before the dream turned to ashes. The only thing left for him in his this world was to leave the past behind him. This is what Faye had tried to tell him before he left.
As he walked down that corridor to the hangar leading to his ship, he knew that it was the last time he would ever see them.