*
"She was my daughter," Leonard said quietly. "And I loved her more than I've ever loved anyone else in my entire life. I would have given my life for hers, but it was not destined to be so."
He looked up at Sierra then, and the pain which he was going through was evident for her to see, even without him actually saying it. This was a loss that ran deep, the type which claws at one's soul and feeds off their terror until there was nothing left. Such was the turmoil in Leonard's heart, and something which he couldn't quite put into words.
"I'm so sorry for your loss," Sierra said, sitting beside him. "She must have been an amazing person."
"She was the best," he said, staring down at the picture and smiling for the first time at the memory of Alexis. "She was just like her mother, per
