Heartstrings and Heartbreaks
"And no—I don't regret it. If I had to choose again, I'd still do the same."
In the gallery, Mary nearly collapsed in tears. Her only daughter—her one and only child, cruel as she may have been—was gone. She had lost everything. A mother burying her child—there was no pain more piercing.
In the end, Oscar was sentenced to death.
He was placed in solitary confinement, awaiting the day when the sentence would be carried out.
'Maya,' he whispered silently in the darkness, 'I'm sorry. I failed you. I was the reason for all your pain.'