Chapter {27} I'm Sorry

Derricks POV;

I walk into the hospital room where I last left Esther and find her face in her palms as she is weeping.

I suddenly see the nine year old girl that couldn't stop crying the night we lost our mother. Her helplessness and dispair clearly outlined. 

If only I was the brother she needed. Perhaps this would never have happened. I have always been though with her because I wanted to save her from monsters like myself. 

I guess karma did catch up with me. Esther has always been a good girl and if she had done anything wrong, it has to because I unknowingly forced her to. 

For 11 years I have been a tyrant to her and what I feared most or thought I was avoiding has finally come to give me a nasty smack across the face. 

So despite all my efforts and misconceptions of protection towards my baby sister, reality has only eve