Alexi, the sweet, grey-eyed, handsome boy in those pictures, did not deserve that. He was an innocent little kid who had done nothing back then to be punished for. She should have loved him no matter what. She should have pulled him closer because of his flaws and reassured him. He didn’t ask to be different. It wasn’t his fault.

“She put you on this path. Gino is right. She maybe didn’t force you to follow your father, but all the bricks were laid in the years leading up to ...